Oracle Linux - UBUNTU - KUBUNTU

Hi all,
i consider to switch on my desktop pc to switch from Windows to Linux.
What would you recommend me - Oracle Linux, UBUNTU or KUBUNTU?
Regards
Martin
PS: I'm a newbie and completely unstressed with Linux ;-)

I use OpenSuse 10.2 with Beryl Xgl, OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox on a Thinkpad. I have Oracle 11.5.10.2 installed with 10.2.0.2 RDBMS, Developer 6i patchset 18, JDeveloper 9i with Oracle Applications Framework extensions, Applications Express, SQL Developer, and many other Oracle Products installed. I use both virtualbox and qemu/kqemu for running Windows XP within an open source virtual machine.
Oracle on Suse is will documented on http://www.suse.com/oracle. There are installation guides for most Oracle products. I have installed 10g Application Server 10.1.2.0.2, and Grid Control 10gR3 as well.
OpenSuse 10.2 is available for download from http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version. You can download 32 bit or 64 bit versions. More Oracle products work on the 32 bit release. I usually do not recommend the 64 bit version for running Oracle products unless you require an SGA greater than 2 GB.
Google OpenSuse 10.2 and Beryl. The transparent desktop cube is really nice:
http://en.opensuse.org/Beryl

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    {code}
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    {code}
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    h2. 11) History
    Version: A, 24-Oct-2011
    - first release
    Version: B, 25-Oct-2011
    - reduced instructions.
    - corrected errors in 6a and 8.
    - new strategy addressing ORA-00845 error.
    - rework of chapter 10.
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    - new procedures in 9a.
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    Version D, 14-Jan-2012
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    http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18802/toc.htm
    http://askubuntu.com/questions/57297/why-has-var-run-been-migrated-to-run
    http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/
    https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2300750&tstart=0
    Kind regards and best of luck!
    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    Regards
    Madhusudhan Rao
    Edited by: MadhusudhanRao on Mar 24, 2012 11:30 PM

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    Oracle 10g Express on Fedora 14 64-bit howto
    Oracle 10g Express on Fedora 14 64-bit howto
    Installing Oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu 10 Howto
    Installing Oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu 10 Howto
    Install Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64-bit) Howto
    Install Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64-bit) Howto
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    Hi all,
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    Hi,
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    For database
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    http://www.excession.org.uk/blog/installing-oracle-on-ubuntu-karmic-64-bit.html
    Regards,
    Jari

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