From: Rainer Duffner (rainer_at_ultra-secure.de)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 03:23:33 CEST
Message-Id: <84E85EEA-20AB-4129-880D-3E3E752F7D6B@ultra-secure.de> From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 03:23:33 +0200 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Re: SLES9 and MySQL5
Am 06.08.2007 um 19:42 schrieb Joseph Marton:
> Well, in the case of MySQL, the packages *have* been specifically
> built for SLES. They have both SLES9 & SLES10 packages, and they
> offer 32-bit and 64-bit varieties. So while more than likely they'll
> work, since the packages didn't come from Novell/SUSE directly Novell
> can't offer support.
>
There's also "MySQL Enterprise"
http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/enterprise.html
Starts at 495USD/year.
Oops, now you pay for two products that are supposed to be "free".
;-)
This is a general problem with all sorts of software (on enterprise-
distros)
Running SLES (and RHEL) means cementing the API.
Good for Oracle, SAP, Notes etc. where the OS is just a loader for
the "real stuff" - these guys barely need a filesystem.
Bad for running OSS (not always, but more often than not, IMO).
One can either:
- switch to a different platform, where this problem does not exist
(mainly FreeBSD), but other problems may (swap problems, if you want)
- install a new server with the new version of the enterprise OS
that contains all the things one wants
- install the 3rd party apps directly from vendor-upstream, 3rd-
party commercial support (MySQL, EnterpriseDB, Symas, Sernet-Samba -
you name it)
- use/create something like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
cheers,
Rainer
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