All this will work well if everything is on one disk. I have Windows (2000) on one disk and Gentoo on another. The Windows disk is the secondary, so it was necessary to MAP the drives in the Windows stanza. It is difficult to find this in the Gentoo docs, but it is there. It is a bit tricky if you have never done it before, or only done it with an automated installer (most other distributions).
In our organization we did an in-depth study of 7.3 and AS. You get several things with AS that you do not get with 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0. First, guaranteed service (three different levels). In a large organization with mission critical apps, that is important. Also, with AS you get clustering. Several flavors. And it works out of the box. Also, as has been mentioned, stability. Oracle uses Redhat AS as a reference platform. That means that everything works, including ORACLE RAC, another clustering solution. None of this is guaranteed to work with Commercial Versions. Maybe you don't need these things, but when you have a cluster of Oracle servers (and you are trying to convince management that they can save money using Linux v Windows or other Unices) this stuff is important.
I remember talking to a devoted fisherman many years ago, when steel beltet radials were becoming common. He told me that he had them on his car, and the magnetic field they set up messed up the monofilament fishing line in his truck. Seems to me that someone clever could use that to generate some electicity.
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All this will work well if everything is on one disk. I have Windows (2000) on one disk and Gentoo on another. The Windows disk is the secondary, so it was necessary to MAP the drives in the Windows stanza. It is difficult to find this in the Gentoo docs, but it is there. It is a bit tricky if you have never done it before, or only done it with an automated installer (most other distributions).
In our organization we did an in-depth study of 7.3 and AS. You get several things with AS that you do not get with 7.3, 8.0, or 9.0. First, guaranteed service (three different levels). In a large organization with mission critical apps, that is important. Also, with AS you get clustering. Several flavors. And it works out of the box. Also, as has been mentioned, stability. Oracle uses Redhat AS as a reference platform. That means that everything works, including ORACLE RAC, another clustering solution. None of this is guaranteed to work with Commercial Versions. Maybe you don't need these things, but when you have a cluster of Oracle servers (and you are trying to convince management that they can save money using Linux v Windows or other Unices) this stuff is important.
Sorry about the misspellings. I meant that it affected the fishing line in his TRUNK.
I remember talking to a devoted fisherman many years ago, when steel beltet radials were becoming common. He told me that he had them on his car, and the magnetic field they set up messed up the monofilament fishing line in his truck. Seems to me that someone clever could use that to generate some electicity.