On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:25:28PM -0800, Ravi Verma wrote: > Dear Friends: > > I had posted a message "ranting" about Oracle's shortcommings on Red Hat > Linux. I still have a couple of questions. > > 1. Is it appropriate for vendors like Oracle to certify their product for > distribution from one particular Linux distributor? Yes. Oracle supports not only the database, but also the kernel - you have Oracle support, feel free (and I mean "free as in beer") to ask Oracle for Linux support. > This gives the impression that there is Linux and then there is RedHat > Linux as opposed to being a mere distribution of it. I abhor the idea of > forking. We have already paid a heavy price as a result of forking of > Unix. Every distributor except Slackware has forked the kernel. All make choices as to which libraries and which specific versions of each package to distribute. > 2. Oracle's marketing claims that RedHat has certain code as part of RHEL > which is not public yet. Mostly false. There's a small part that's not open source (Java I think) but most of it certainly is. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
