I'd go with RHEL5 64bit, but that's just a personal opinion. 32 bit doesn't really make sense for large database as you have severe limitations in memory management. hth Alan.- On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Laurent, Vincent <Vince_Laurent@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Anyone have recommendation for a flavor of Linux to use when installing > 11g? Should I go with 32 or 64bit? I have a bare VM system I have been > given to use as a test base and need to pick an OS. > > Thanks! > Vince > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l