DB2 validated for use on Ubuntu

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I'm Dan Scott: barista, library geek, and free-as-in-freedom software developer. I hack on projects such as the Evergreen open-source ILS project and PEAR's File_MARC package .

By day I'm the Systems Librarian for Laurentian University. You can reach me by email at dan@coffeecode.net.

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Tuesday, November 8. 2005

Good news for all you DB2 for Linux people who love Ubuntu -- IBM just validated Ubuntu as a Linux distribution on which IBM is willing to offer its enterprise level support. You can see that Ubuntu was excited in their press release about the accomplishment. And rightully so: no other database server has announced production-level support for Ubuntu. Cool.

I've issued some updates to the DB2 for Linux HOWTO that will hopefully be published soon; I had based the original Ubuntu install instructions on my Gentoo experiences and there were a few embarassing references to that that I hadn't cleaned up (and which were painfully evident now that I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" on the dual-boot side of my laptop).

In a future update to the HOWTO, I plan to offer a little more fine-grained installation advice; the current instructions install everything under the sun, including support for 29 different languages, warehouse agents, and assorted other features that probably aren't required for most developers or users. But at least you can get up and running relatively easily

So if you want to try Ubuntu, go to http://ubuntulinux.org. It has replaced SuSE Workstation 9.2 on my laptop -- and I'm even using Gnome again, which I had given up on a few years ago.

If you want to try DB2, you can download a 90-day trial of DB2 Express.

Posted by Dan Scott in DB2 at 21:17 | Comments (4)

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I m waiting for IDS 10 on ubuntu ! please !!

If IBM validates DB2, why not IDS ?

#1 Eduardo on 2006-02-03 00:00 (Reply)

IBM typically doesn't actually perform the work to validate DB2, it assesses the results of the validation testing performed by the partner that wants to earn the validation. But I can see in my post that "IBM just validated Ubuntu..." makes it sound like IBM does all of the work. Ah, the vagaries of the English language!

If Ubuntu wants to be validated as a Linux distribution for running Informix IDS, then they (or more likely Canonical) would have to take the initiative in contacting IBM. And they're not likely to do that if there is no demand from their users -- so I would recommend that you let Canonical know that you would be interested in running Informix IDS on Ubuntu.

#1.1 Dan Scott (Homepage) on 2006-02-03 10:50 (Reply)

hi.

i want to install slackware on my laptop but i have found ubuntu and i do not know what to do. which distro would you recommend me????

thanks.

-2501

#1.1.1 tony on 2006-02-25 17:57 (Reply)

If you want it, you can get Slackware at http://www.slackware.com/. It's one of the distributions that I haven't tried so far; let me know how it goes for you.

#1.1.1.1 denials (Homepage) on 2006-02-27 07:35 (Reply)

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