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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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.