[COLUG] Oracle's Linux Distro can use Yast, but maybe not RH

[Tom Hanlon]

On 28 Oct 2007, at 12:08, Rick Troth wrote:

> Oracle has their own distro???   [sigh]

I consider the Oracle distro to be RedHat. The intention is to just  
have customers pay Oracle for support, instead of redHat and Oracle.  
So the platform is intended to run any app that RH  can run.

They will be taking RH's source and adding a bit here and there, but  
nothing to drastic, so I consider it RedHat.

--
Tom

> I suppose it was going to happen eventually.
>
> I recommended to my former employer that they NOT make
> their own distro.  (Their reasons for not doing so presently
> do not come from me, nor from any technology supporting motives.)
> Thankfully, they do not have one.
>
> I have feared the day when IBM would have a Linux distro.
> Since they foray into Linux on the mainframe, they have held
> restraint.  Clearly it has worked to their advantage.
> Oracle's business and motives are different.
>
> -- R;
>
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