Oracle's Enterprise Linux released!

Oracle released Enterprise Linux as part of "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" program. In fact Enterprise Linux is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution. There are two versions to download x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) and download is free.
The interesting fact is Oracle is also providing technical support to this distribution - Network, Basic and Premier support.

Enterprise Linux could be downloaded at http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux.
More informations about Enteprise Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux program you can find at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/.

I'll try install it soon and post the first feelings here.
Stay tuned! :-)

Update:
You can read the response from Redhat aka "Unfakeable Linux" :-) http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/

Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 Comments [2]

Fedora Core 6 released - Installation HOWTO for Oracle 9i updated

Fedora Core 6 was released yesterday.

Whats new in FC6:

1. Xorg 7.1.3 with support of automatical configuration of resulution and refresh rate
2. 3D desktop based on AIGLX project
3. New KDE (3.5.4) and Gnome (2.16)
4. Changed default font to DejaVu
5. Anaconda installer now can point to extras and updates repositories.
6. Graphical manager for XEN
7. Support for authentication via Smartcards
8. Kernel 2.6.18 with couple of interesting features
9. ...aaaand this: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2006-06/msg00418.html

Of course my first step was installation of Oracle database on new FC6.
Installation went fine and errors that occured during installation on FC5 (buggy bash for example) were fixed. Also FC6 is not shipped with glibc-kerneheaders package so you don't looking for it.
HOWTO for 9i was updated and for 10gR2 will be updated soon.

Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Comments [0]

Sun's project Blackbox

Datacenter built into shipping container? What a hell...?

• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 Sun Fire T1000 servers with the CoolThreads technology with 2000 cores and 8000 simultaneous threads.



• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores.



• A single Project Blackbox could provide as much as 1.5 petabytes of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage.


• A single Project Blackbox could provide 7 terabytes of memory.


• A single Project Blackbox could handle up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users.


• A single Project Blackbox currently has sufficient power and cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment.

Check this...
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/story.jsp
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/scenarios.jsp

Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Comments [2]

Installation HOWTO for Oracle 10g Release 2 on Solaris 10 x86

As I promised two weeks ago, I prepared HOWTO for installation of Oracle 10g R2 on Sun Solaris 10 x86 and also write my feelings from install process here.

I prepared fresh installation of Solaris (Core & network) on my test machine plus installed some additional packages (such as SUNWbash) from Solaris media.
There are couple of new features and changes since Solaris 10. For example kernel settings in /etc/system are obsolete for most parameters and you need to create and use "project" for that purpose.
When the OS was configured I downloaded the DB installation archive and begun the installation process.

There are some differences which are not included in official guide.
For successfull launch of OUI you need to install some additional packages such as X libraries, Motif runtime, and UTF-8 Iconv modules. Also official guide contains informations for Solaris 8,9 and 10 versions which could be leading to confusion.

I can say that whole installation went fine and I wasn't facing to any problem.

Of course during this occasion I prepared rlwrap package for Solaris 10 . As rlwrap depends on readline library I prepared also the readline package.

download readline package for Solaris 10 x86.
(md5 checksum: 1c7d64ef4bd1438b557f6aee60bbfe32)
download rlwrap package for Solaris 10 x86.
(md5 checksum: 796b77359a5e01fa27072ec0fbf85c66)

To install packages execute following commands:

gunzip readline-5.1-solaris-x86.gz

gunzip rlwrap-solaris-x86.gz

pkgadd -d readline-5.1-solaris-x86 rlwrap-solaris-x86

As readline library is located in /usr/local/lib don't forget to add that line to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Also put following line to your .bash_profile:

alias sqplus='/usr/local/bin/rlwrap sqlplus'

Enjoy it...

Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Comments [2]