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