Authored by: greed on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:02 PM EDT |
I am so opposed to Oracle that, when given the choice between shelling out for
another VMware Fusion license and using VirtualBox for free, I paid VMware more
money.
I have issues with the way CentOS handles their distribution: I feel their build
procedure is far too secretive. (I want to be able to build my own version of
the distro, should I so desire.) As a result, I switched to Scientific Linux.
I know the two distros have different goals, with CentOS ensuring full binary
compatibility with RHEL, while Scientific Linux only worries about source
compatibility. But I only run Free software on my Linux servers, so source
compatibility is plenty.
But I'd use Ubuntu before I go near anything from Oracle. (I'm not a Debian
fan. And Ubuntu just triggers "why did you do THAT?!" screams.)
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Authored by: Tyro on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT |
No.
Having answered that, I should elaborate that I won't be using Red Hat again
soon either. The last time I installed it in a partition it refused to
recognize my Debian partition at boot time. (Well, that may have been CentOS,
and may have been Fedora. I presume that it applies to the entire family of
products.)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
But only if it doesn't come equiped with non-GPL licensed code you can't
easily remove.
And I certainly wouldn't use Oracle Database at home - I
don't accept their license terms.
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Authored by: hAckz0r on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
If I had a license to Oracle's Linux on my machine of any flavour, I would first
break it and then send them the dust (forensic evidence) left over from all the
security exploits I generated. After that I'd send the software patches to the
kernel devs, or whoever maintains that particular module of code, and just DBAN
and "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" for a fresh GPT partition table. All the way down to the
lowest levels of scrubbing the disk drive, kind of like washing your hands after
touching something rather vile I think. Come to think about it, I would also
throw the install disks in the trash and scrub my hands for an hour. Does that
answer the question?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
I s'pose the main reason I would want to use Oracle Linux (and I don't) is for
all
the other stuff they float on top of it. They do patch regularly. I won't
speculate
on whether they patch often enough, or if the extent of the patches
reveals
underlying weakness of their system. Some evidence can be got from
Oracle
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 06:07 PM EDT |
Since Oracle simply rips off a well known distro, why would you bother?
And since it isn't Slackware, I wouldn't waste my time.
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- Amen - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT
- Point of order... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT
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Authored by: Kilz on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 06:53 PM EDT |
I trust them about as far as I can toss a Dodge Ram pickup. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT |
If you want to pay for "Red Hat Linux," get Red Hat. If
you're poor, or a home user, get CentOS or Scientific Linux.
What's the supposed advantage of "Oracle" (rebranded Red Hat)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
No Chance.
Even though I know Orcale's Linux will be exactly the same as what I use, but
with less grief, I simply don't trust them not to pull a fast one.
So no, their binaries won't be going onto my machines. They can thank messrs
Ellison, Boies, Schiller and Flexner for that.
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