[CentOS] Server Build Example

Fri Jun 5 23:58:47 UTC 2009
Lucian@lastdot.org <lucian at lastdot.org>

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, nate<centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:
> gene.poole at macys.com wrote:
>> I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a
>> production server.  I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every
>> 6-months.  I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application
>> server, and several other server type functions.
>>
>> Is there an example of building a server that boots into init3?
>
> If you don't install or configure X11 then it boots to init3 by
> default.
>
> In kickstart the config option is 'skipx'.
>
> As others have mentioned fedora and centos admin is very similar.
>
> My personal preference of course is RHEL 5 for Oracle, your already
> paying quite a bit for Oracle my view is might as well pay a little
> bit more for a supported OS(and yes I know that CentOS is a clone
> of RHEL..).
>
> Unless of course Oracle changed their support policies I haven't
> used it since I was at my previous company about a year ago. They
> didn't support CentOS at the time.
>
> nate
>
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I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in beer)?
So my take is he's not paying anything.