OEL on a laptop?
As I'm preparing to start a new position doing strictly "Oracle" development - or at least focused more on Oracle technologies rather than generic J2EE - I'm getting myself familiar with JDeveloper (and Oracle Middleware) development/deployment environments. I tend to run a lot of VMs (VMWare Fusion), so I've also played with running JDeveloper on a few different operating systems:
- Mac OS X (my 'host')
- Ubuntu Linux (a 'guest')
- Solaris 10 (guest)
- Oracle Enterprise Linux (guest)
Not surprisingly, Oracle products seem to 'just work' (to borrow a Mac phrase) under Oracle Enterprise Linux. There's apparently a few JDK issues (being non-Sun) under Mac OS X (lots of errors thrown) and a few incompatibility issues with Ubuntu - but things 'click' better on OEL. JDeveloper actually performs better under the guest OEL than it does 'natively' on Mac OS X.
... but eventually I'm going to have to move away from the desktop Mac in favor of a development environment on a laptop. Because I'm more familiar/productive doing development work under Linux/UNIX I'm leaning toward a Linux-based laptop. However, laptops can have different needs than a server-focused OS.
Does anyone run OEL on a laptop day in and day out as a 'main' operating system? Does OEL have good (or decent) support for things like suspending on lid closure, power management (battery) or support for driving external monitors in the 'docked' situation?
Does anyone have any 'tips' for installing or using OEL on a laptop? (Or would I be better off running 'something else' for the laptop and OEL under a Virtual Machine?)
... and if I'm running this on a laptop with that little "Windows" sticker on the bottom, is there a little Tux-in-armor sticker I can use to replace it with? :-)
Thanks for any advice you might have.