I wonder what are the requirements for the minimally sized redhat-like
distribution (or centos, or fedora) which allow oracle to run without
issues? suppose I just don't want do download and install those GBs for
the system. what would be minimalistic distribution to run oracle?

and another question: what is the reason for not porting oracle to bsd
family systems? are there really serious technical/philosophical
differences which make porting not an option? I saw some pages which
describe installing oracle on non-supported linuxes (like gentoo): do
this, do that and basically you're done and oracle works. but when it
comes to bsd the only information was reporting Oracle 8.0.5 and 9i run
on freebsd. it looks like tough task to run oracle on bsd. why?

thank you
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geos

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