Oracle Ksplice introduces Known Exploit Detection functionality
The Oracle Ksplice team has added some really cool new functionality in Oracle Ksplice. Instead of writing and copying the blog pretty much, just go directly to the source:It's unique, it's awesome,...
View ArticleOracle Linux Kernel blog and Oracle Linux for Arm
I haven't written much lately, pretty busy times!I do want to take a minute to promote the Oracle Linux kernel blogs that we have been published recently. There's some good info in there. When you have...
View ArticleOracle Linux on Arm (aarch64) update
Nothing new to announce but I wanted to take a few minutes to give a little update on where we are with Oracle Linux for Arm. Just a quick summary:- We have a full version of Oracle Linux 7 (update 5)...
View ArticleOracle Ksplice patch for CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 for Oracle Linux UEK r4
There was an Intel disclosure yesterday of a set of vulnerabilities around L1TF. You can read a summary here.We released, as you can see from the blog, a number of kernel updates for Oracle Linux and a...
View ArticleOracle Ksplice for Oracle Linux in Oracle Cloud
My favorite topic.. Ksplice! Just a friendly reminder that every Oracle Linux instance in Oracle Cloud comes with Oracle Ksplice installed/enabled by default at no additional cost beyond basic...
View ArticleOracle Linux containers security
I recently did a short webcast that talked about Oracle Linux & Containers and some suggestions around best practices and some security considerations.The webcast had just a few slides and some of...
View Articlebbcp and rclone for Oracle Linux
Last week we packaged up a few more RPMs for Oracle Linux 7 that will help make life easier for Cloud users.bbcp 15.02.03.01.1-3 in ol7_developer:# yum install bbcpbbcp is what I would call ssh on...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 for Arm is now Generally Available
We released Oracle Linux 7 for Arm a few days ago. General Availability. We have been making previews available for a few months now but the time has come to put support behind it and make clear to...
View ArticleUnbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5 for Oracle Linux 7
Yesterday we released the 5th version of our "UEK" package for Oracle Linux 7 (UEKR5). This kernel version is based on a 4.14.x mainline Linux kernel. One of the nice things is that 4.14 is an upstream...
View Articleoci-utils-0.6-34.el7
I will write up some examples on this later but for now... here's the changelog: The oci-utils package is used to manage block volumes and VNICs and is available for use with Oracle Linux 7 images in...
View ArticleSome tips for using Oracle Linux in Oracle Cloud
Creating an Oracle Linux instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is easy. For the most part it is the same as creating your own image from the install media but we have done a few extra things that are...
View ArticleUsing Oracle Ksplice for CVE-2018-8897 and CVE-2018-1087
Just the other day I was talking about using ksplice again and then just after these 2 new CVEs hit that are pretty significant. So, another quick # uptrack-upgrade and I don't have to worry about...
View ArticleOracle Ksplice and Oracle Linux reminder
For those of you that keep up with my blog and twitter musings... you know how much I love Ksplice. This morning I was connecting to one of my cloud VMs and did an uptrack-upgrade as it had been a...
View ArticleCongestion Control algorithms in UEK5 preview - try out BBR
One of the new features in UEK5 is a new TCP congestion control management algorithm called BBR (bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time). You can find very good papers here and here.Linux...
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Running VirtualBox inside a VM instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OK - So don't ask "Why?"... Because... I can! :) would be the answer for the most part.Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports nested virtualization. When you create a VM instance in OCI, and you run...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 3 B Oracle Linux 7.4 ARM64 with UEK5 preview image available for...
A few weeks ago we released an Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 for ARM64 preview update on OTN. This updated ISO installs on Ampere X-Gene 3 (emag) and Cavium ThunderX / ThunderX2 -based systems (and it's also...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 for ARM64 preview images on Docker Hub
A few days ago, we released the docker packages for OL7/ARM64. If you have an ARM64 server running OL7, you can just install docker as you would normally do on x64. # yum install docker Of course in...
View Articleyum-builddep and rpmbuild
I sometimes try to build an RPM from source (to patch something or try a patch). Since I do these things every now and then, I tend to forget stuff easily and it takes me a while to get back into...
View ArticleUpdated Oracle Linux 7 update 4 ARM64/aarch64 with uek5 4.14.26-2
We refreshed the installation media for OL7/ARM64 with the latest uek5 preview build based on upstream stable 4.14.26 and added perf and tuned.You can download it from the OTN OL ARM webpage. Ignore...
View ArticleOracle Linux UEK4 (4.1.12-112.16.4) errata kernel update compiled with...
Yesterday afternoon, we released a UEK4 update for both Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7.You can find the announcement mail here.This update includes a number of generic fixes but most importantly it...
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