[Gllug] Oracle and Linux

[Bernard Peek]

In message <1067258305.8276.20.camel at obelix.lon4.fastsearch.net>, Martin 
A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk> writes
>On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 12:06, Pete Ryland wrote:
>> Wow!  I'm amazed that you got it to work.  Last time I tried installing
>> Oracle on Debian, it required so much "tweaking" of the system that you'd be
>> hard pressed to still call it Debian.  Whereas (following all the rules)
>> Oracle just worked on Redhat without any problems.
>
>The main obstacle was the Oracle installer - a huge bloated Java
>application requiring an X server to communicate with. Stupid fonts,
>slow beyonf belief and, even nicer, the installer was broken by default
>requiring you to hop onto another terminal, edit a shell script and run
>it manually before asking the installer to Try Again.

The Windows version of the installer is possibly the worst Windows 
program ever to reach version 2 (other than Windows 2, that is.) I've 
been working with Windows since version 2 and I've never seen anything 
else quite as bad.

I'm glad to hear that it's the worst part of Oracle.



-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.


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