Well, I'm being forced against my will by a customer at $DAYJOB to install Oracle Enterprise Linux for them. So I downloaded it, installed it at home this evening, just to kick the tires a little bit before installing for real. So I installed it. The first thing I notice is that Anaconda looks a tad shoddy compared to the real deal. For instance, when installing packages, there's a 'Status:' line at the bottom that's always blank. What is it supposed to tell me the status OF? That wasn't present in the real deal IIRC.
For something so 'in your face', I'd expect Oracle to be ashamed of themselves. They just seemed to have replaced 'Red Hat' with 'Enterprise Linux' without regard to whether or not it made any sort of sense. Same throughout the installer, really, except they just replaced Red Hat with nothing.
Next, it installs. I login, and find this:
[jstanley@dhcp-137 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Carthage)
[jstanley@dhcp-137 ~]$
For something so 'in your face', I'd expect Oracle to be ashamed of themselves. They just seemed to have replaced 'Red Hat' with 'Enterprise Linux' without regard to whether or not it made any sort of sense. Same throughout the installer, really, except they just replaced Red Hat with nothing.
This really seems like quite a shoddy product to me. I've always thought so, and now that I've seen for myself, I KNOW so.
Oh, and by the way - this was the 100th post to this blog. What a pitiful thing to waste it on.
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