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Oracle is a Red Hat Premier Partner adding their efforts to the development and optimization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the optimal platform for deploying Oracle solutions in the enterprise. As a part of the Unbreakable Linux initiative, Oracle has ported and certified its major applications, including Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, the Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Developer Suite, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Demonstrating its commitment to Linux, Oracle also offers direct operating system and Oracle application support to customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and ES.
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Oracle 10g R2 is latest release and at the time of document creation is only supported on x86. Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (SLES9) certification is in progress and will be updated on Metalink (http://metalink.oracle.com/). This document will help you to install Oracle 10g R2 on SLES9. If you encounter any problem, please post your question to suse-oracle@suse.com.

Note: Same instruction will work for SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 but not supported by Novell/Oracle in production environment.
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The Linux System Administrator’s Guide, describes the system administration aspects of using Linux. It is intended for people who know next to nothing about system administration (those saying “what is it?”), but who have already mastered at least the basics of normal usage. This manual doesn’t tell you how to install Linux; that is described in the [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Infrared−HOWTO provides an introduction to Linux and infrared devices and how to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA project. This package uses IrDA(TM) compliant standards. IrDA(TM) is an industrial standard for infrared wireless communication, and most laptops made after January 1996 are equipped with an IrDA(TM) compliant infrared transceiver. Infrared ports let you communicate with printers, modems, fax machines, LANs, and other laptops or PDAs. Speed ranges from 2400bps to 4Mbps.
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Oracle has now entered the virtual server arena with the introduction of Oracle VM, based on the Open Source Xen™ 3.1 hypervisor. Emulex, an active participant in Open Source Linux and Xen, now supports Oracle VM. Emulex is driving technological innovation with Oracle and the Linux community to enhance virtualization and data integrity for SAN-connected deployments.
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The following document discusses the Oracle bbed tool. The name bbed is an acronym for Block Browser and EDitor and it is shipped with the database. It is intended for Oracle internal use only and the company never publishes any details about it. It is a very powerful tool but also extremely dangerous since it can change and/or corrupt data blocks of any Oracle database.
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This tutorial was written due to my frustration on installing Oracle 9i on FC3. Basically 9i installation on RAS 1,2,3 RH 9, FC1, FC2 is documented fairly well but it is hard to find anything worthwhile on FC3; some people even suggested that installing Oracle 9i on FC3 is not possible. This HOWTO attempts to condense all my experience and findings with any such info peculiar to FC3, which was before scattered all over the web, into one concise but useful document.
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Oracle 9i RAC is a scalable, highly-available, clustered database that runs efficiently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and low-cost servers and storage. In December 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle RAC set the world record for the TPC-C benchmark, achieving over 1 million transactions per minute on a shared storage cluster of 16 industry servers. Users are scaling Oracle databases without incurring the equipment or support costs of large SMP servers.
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The aim of the Linux to Solaris Administrator Guide is to give Linux administrators the information and guidance they’ll need to make a successful transition to using Solaris 10. The Linux to Solaris Administrators Guide is not intended for a first time system administrator. The guide assumes a certain amount of background administering a Linux system.
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This guide describes how to quickly install Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control on Linux x86 systems. It includes information about the following:
■ Reviewing Information About This Guide
■ System Requirements
■ Mounting the Product Disk
■ Installing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control
■ Other Installation or Upgrade Options
■ Documentation Accessibility
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