Just finished the download and installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux. As already stated in the news it is essentially Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
I hoped for a little bit more customization towards data center or Oracle database installations. Not even the default screen for the firewall or SELinux settings includes some Oracle specific things like port 1521:
Well, but they include some RPMs for ASM (Automatic Storage Management) I could not find on my latest Centos 4.4 DVD:
Disc3: glade2-2.6.0-1.oracle.i386.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm oracleasm-support-2.0.3-2.i386.rpm
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