By the way, I had problems with oracle on kernel 2.6.x. Does that still happens?
In my experirence Oracle tends to care more about the version of your C libraries and gcc than the kernel. There are a few posts on the forums about getting the right libs for Oracle under Gentoo. I've current got Oracle 10g running on RHEL v4 which is using kernel 2.6.9.
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