SLES Update and BrainShare

Hello Novell SUSE Linux - Oracle users,

We had very successful LinuxWorld, Boston show, Thanks to you all for
supporting us. Here is some update you may find it useful. 

Today, SUSE Linux team released SLES8 SP4, next few months focus will
be on SLES9 SP2 and SUSE Linux Professional 9.3. More announcements will
follow later. If you are coming to Novell BrainShare, please set your
schedule to attend some of Oracle activities.

SLES9:
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High points of SLES9 SP2 will be ocfs2 and Async I/O support. More
detail about SP2 availability later.

SLES8:
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 Service Pack 4 contains all security fixes released via the
maintenance Web since the release of Service Pack 3.


SLES 9 Documents (how-to's):  
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   * How-to documents are updated.
   * New section " Customer Contribution" is added. 
   * Oracle on Linux VMware Cookbook - Instructions and SLES9 DVD's

 We are looking for some real customer migration how-to's i.e. 9i to
10g on SLES8/SLES9. You are welcome to share your experience in "how-to"
document format.


BrainShare'2005, Salt Lake:
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* Oracle Technical sessions on OCFS2 and Oracle 10g

* Oracle on SUSE Linux Installfest  @ BrainShare March 21st, Novell
Developer Den
   -  Come ask Novell/Oracle Linux team your questions, as they build a
two node linux cluster capable of running Real Application Clusters,
using the Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2) and firewire.
   -  Get help installing Oracle 10g (10.1.0.3) Enterprise Database on
SLES9 on your laptop.
   -  Free evaluation Enterprise Oracle on Linux media from Novell and
Oracle.


Best Regards,
Arun Singh
Novell Inc. 
http://www.novell.com/oracle