Keeping Up-to-Date With Oracle

[Joe Hood]

I have a couple of Redhat AS 3.0 installations that are hosting Oracle
11i eBusiness Suite applilcations and databases.  Oracle has explicit
instructions that I'm to leave the stock kernel, glibc, and compat
libraries in place and not update them when security patches come
available.

How does one deal with this?  To run Oracle my Linux is breakable.

Thanks,
Joe