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I just finished installing Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 update 4 (5.4) and ran into the following issue installing oracle-validated from ULN Network:

[root@hercules1 rhn]# up2date oracle-validated
 
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: el5_i386_latest…
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: el5_i386_oracle…
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Fetching rpm headers…
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November 5th, 2009 | Tags: OEL 5.4, oracle-validated | Category: Linux | Comments (1)

Oracle has just announced a new world record TPC-C benchmark result claiming that Oracle and Sun Are Faster than IBM: Proof Now Available. What’s really interesting is that they used Solaris OS instead of Oracle EL for this benchmark, specifically: “Oracle® Database 11g running on Sun SPARC® servers with CMT technology and the [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Tags: solaris, SUN vs Linux | Category: Linux | Comments (1)

I don’t normally use vncserver, I prefer SSH X11 tunneling/forwarding due to it’s inherited security, but sometimes there have been issues with X11/SSH and it’s nice to know an alternative. This quick how-to is meant for an Oracle DBA looking for a quick way to run GUI tools from the Oracle stack, such as [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Tags: vncserver | Category: Linux, Operations | Leave a comment

In case you didn’t get this via oracle.com news updates — 11gR2 is out and available for download from here ….
And as I have predicted, the first distro is Linux x86 and Linux x86-64. So if you are a die-hard Solaris fan it should now be obvious (if it wasn’t already) that Linux is [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: 11gR2, Linux, solaris, SUN vs Linux | Category: Linux | Leave a comment