On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Avi Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Oracle has a much simpler support structure: our binaries, updates and > errata are all free to download and distribute. We provide a public yum > service at http://public-yum.oracle.com (which is delivered via Akamai). > This makes Oracle Linux the only Enterprise distribution that can be > distributed by an ISV/IHV at no cost, which makes it excellent for > appliances. We also don't have limitations on virtual guests. If you have > a support subscription for the physical machine (and you only need one), > you can run as many guests as you can cram onto the hardware. :) > > We also provide a bunch of additional tools at no cost: Enterprise Manager > 12c Cloud Control is free to download and use to provision, patch, manage, > monitor and alert on your Oracle Linux fleet, Oracle Clusterware support > is included, Oracle OCFS2 clustered filesystem is included, XFS support is > included with Premier support subscriptions (but the software is included > regardless). So, all the bits you need to pay Red Hat or SUSE extra for, > we include at no cost.
This is all really good, but it would be nice if it wasn't such a major PITA to get to the download. https://login.oracle.com/mysso/signon.jsp >From that public-yum address you gave I get to the above page which wants me to register or sign up. Early this month (before I started this thread on luv-main) I tried to do that. I tried to create a new account which was a horrible process, the Javascript was really slow making my Q8400 system running Chromium too slow to keep up with my normal typing speed. Then when I got to the end it told me that my account was already registered - presumably from years ago. I went through the password reset process but got no email, maybe SpamAssassin didn't like it or maybe it didn't re-send afer grey-listing. CentOS and Debian are much easier, you just download and start work. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
