From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 26 10:58:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08769 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08764 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18793; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:57:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd018704; Mon Oct 26 11:57:24 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13957; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:57:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810261857.LAA13957@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Oracle8 Release 8.0.5 for LINUX 2.0.34 To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:57:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, selvaraj@sri.lanka.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 24, 98 08:13:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Oracle will not run on FreeBSD at this stage. It is likely that it > > > will not be supported on the 2.2.x family at all. > > > > Unless you get the version of Oracle that Oracle sells on their > > FreeBSD-running NC server, in which case it runs great on 2.2.6 > > and above. > > > > This would incidently make it a FreeBSD issue instead of a Linux > > emulation issue, killing two birds with one stone. 8-). > > Last time I heard from John Dyson on this list about that, the FreeBSD > version wasn't a publicly available thing. Love to have it, I'm doing a > Oracle class project now, and it sure would be lovely to have (drool!) You don't get if you don't ask. In other words, ask them for it. The difference between an internal and a public release is whether there is a perceived market for the thing or not. It's not like they have additional porting effort, and it's not like they don't already have to support it internally, so it's almost zero work for them to do a release -- if there's a market. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message