On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle > > enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm > > curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be > > any differences that would be worth caring about? > > > > the only thing i can think of that might be worthwhile is that OEL > > might change some of the default kernel parms thru /etc/sysctl.conf > > that make that distro more appropriate for running large oracle > > databases. beyond that, i have no idea. > > > > thoughts? > > > > Price ? OEL 5.4 is freely downloadable so i'm guessing that's not it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================