-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Oracle and Linux..... Okay, the first thing I want to say is, if you want Oracle on Linux, you are probably best going with the whole Oracle stack -- as Avi says, "one throat to choke" ... But what does that mean today? If you like systemd and similarly RHEL related things, then Oracle Unbreakable Linux will be up your alley. That sounds like you, Russell, to a T ... in fact, I wonder why you are sticking with Debian given what I've seen lately of your posts. And yes, you can install Oracle on non Oracle stack, but you won't get any support for Oracle [by Oracle] on Linux UNLESS it is 100% using Oracle's stack. As an Oracle DBA of many years, I've come to the conclusion that I don't really want to support Oracle any longer. The way they took over Sun, well not happy about that. They way they still take issue with Google over Java API with Android ... not good either. The way that MySql test scripts are now [unless it has changed again], not part of MySql open source.... Let's just say, that I am not really a fan of where Oracle is going and many would have said the same long before myself. Cheers A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlRTK38ACgkQqBZry7fv4vucSQEAyTzjyBoR1CJWvjfxZ3aR+9Us dP1rmI8SMF1wMzojlz4BAIo2YT6wEaLBFcYBETh3ESqFwh8eIKKpoCzEHkASJyeF =VnNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----