[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat version 4

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Jun 5 09:53:39 CDT 2015


On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:16:30 -0500
Tom Tumelty <tomtumelty at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking for a version of Linux that Oracle 10g will run on.
> official documents i have seen say redhad 3 or RHEL 4, Suse 9 or 10.

You're not going to have this thing connected, directly or indirectly,
to the Internet, are you? This OS is missing almost two decades of
security updates.

> 
> Is there a charge for 5.2 ? The company is very tight and will not
> spend money (so far).

Are you an employee, or are these people your customers? If the latter,
I'd bail on the whole project. Someone not willing to pay $10 to $100
for a Linux distribution will have a negative reaction to paying *you*
for all the extra work you do working around their cheapness.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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