Howard, Chris wrote:
> I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working
> on HP-UX systems. 
> 
> Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on 
> Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle
> and Linux.
> 
> For SL, I'm assuming I can call my SL 5.3 installation equivalent
> to Red Hat 5.3 for Oracle support purposes?

Not from the point of view of Oracle. If you want support from them, you 
better run RH.

> 
> ...
> 
> Is it safe to do regular yum updates on a dedicated
> Oracle App Server/SL 5.3 box?  Maybe I should just 
> let it run at the  current configuration and not
> chance breaking something.

If you want support from Oracle, you might want to restrict yourself to 
security updates only, and of course RH (or the Oracle clone).

Matthias