On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, M.K.Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rakesh,
>
> IBM DB2 is a closed-source product. You are working on an IBM project.
> IBM has recommended that you use an OS from the list.
>
> So, even if you manage to install the product on Fedora 9, and later
> if you run into a non-obvious problem, you will have to ask IBM for
> help. At that time they can refuse to help if your OS is not on their
> list. So its important to ask them, not us, for an opinion.
>
> If I was in your place, I would spend my time and effort in completing
> the project rather than working out why some variation of
> kernel/glibc/distro works or not with which version of which closed
> source product. Thats unless I was getting paid for for that.
>


>
> If you are keen to work inside Fedora 9, perhaps you could use a
> virtual machine (xen/kvm) running one of the OSs that IBM recommends.
> I am not a DB2 expert or an IBM employee so I can't guarantee that
> will be satisfactory.
>
> And by the way, why don't you try Fedora 11 ? Its rather neat :)
>
> Regards,
> -- Pai
>
Thanks a lot for your suggestion but you don't understand why am i asking
these question to you guys. Actually Red Hat does not support my lan card
that is why i was asking for some other option. By the way i never addressed
any one as a DB2 expert or an IBM employee. It was not mentioned any such
kind of thing in prospectus that they gave me, that i will have to use any
particular OS they just have mentioned that i would have to use LINUX and it
was also not compulsory. I had just selected it because i didn't want to use
Windows.
 By the way thanks again.
reg
rakesh

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