[CentOS] Wait for 5 or just use 4.4?

Fri Mar 30 21:06:42 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Morten Torstensen wrote:
>
> I would think that Oracle would run pretty much out of the box on 
> RHEL5 (and CentOS 5), as the kernel/glibc is not bleeding edge and 
> Redhat works pretty close with Oracle (as they do with other 
> Enterprise software). That does not mean it is ready for production, 
> but it should be ready for testing and piloting.
>

indeed, I've heard Oracle flat out won't support you if you're running 
on CentOS 4, even tho its functionally nearly identical to RHEL4 which 
is supported.