The life of a Linux RPM (package)
Another frequently asked question related to Oracle Linux is how versions of specific packages (RPMs) are picked. A Linux distribution is basically a collection of a ton of open source projects that...
View ArticleA little sample snmp module for Oracle VM Server 3.2
I was looking at snmp for a few days and decided to put together a little snmp module (extension) that would work on Oracle VM Server (3.2 and up). In 3.2 we started to include the net-snmp rpms to...
View ArticleSingle Instance/RAC Oracle VM templates update
Superstar Saar just released a new set of Oracle VM templates. We (Oracle) just released 2 patch sets for the Oracle RDBMS - 11.2.0.4.0 and 11.2.0.2.11 (x86 and x86_64) Simultaneously, Saar updated his...
View ArticleOracle Linux 6 UEK3 beta
Last week we published UEK3 beta on http://public-yum.oracle.com. It is very easy to get started with this and play around with the new features. Just takes a few steps :Install Oracle Linux 6...
View ArticleOracle Linux 6 on Microsoft Azure
One of the great keynotes at Oracle OpenWorld last week, was from Microsoft. You can watch the replay here. I think Brad did an awesome job, very engaging and a very positive partner message. There was...
View ArticleOracle Linux 5.10 channels are now published
We just released Oracle Linux 5.10 channels on both http://public-yum.oracle.com and on the Unbreakable Linux Network. ISO's are going to be updated on edelivery in a few days. The channels are...
View ArticleOracle Linux and Oracle VM pricing guide
A few days ago someone showed me a pricing guide from a Linux vendor and I was a bit surprised at the complexity of it. Especially when you look at larger servers (4 or 8 sockets) and when adding...
View ArticleOracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) 5.1
Last week, we released the latest update of Oracle Secure Global Desktop. Release 5.1 introduces a number of bug fixes and smaller changes but the most interesting one is definitely increased support...
View ArticleSpacewalk 2.0 provided to manage Oracle Linux systems
Oracle Linux customers have a few options to manage and provision their servers. We provide a license to use Oracle Enterprise Manager's Linux OS management, monitoring and provisioning features...
View ArticleOracle Linux 6.5
Oracle Linux 6.5 has been uploaded to ULN and public-yum. OL6.5 includes UEKr3 based on Linux 3.8 alongside the base 2.6.32-based kernel. The ISOs are available for download from My Oracle Support and...
View ArticleOracle Linux 6.5 and Docker
I have been following the Docker project with great interest for a little while now but never got to actually try it out at all. I found a little bit of time tonight to at least try hello world. Since...
View ArticleOracle Linux containers
So I played a bit with docker yesterday (really cool) and as I mentioned, it uses lxc (linux containers) underneath the covers. To create an image based on OL6, I used febootstrap, which works fine but...
View ArticleOracle Linux containers continued
More on Linux containers... the use of btrfs in particular and being able to easily create clones/snapshots of container images. To get started : have an Oracle Linux 6.5 installation with UEKr3 and...
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OpenSCAP distributed with Oracle VM Server for x86
Security Compliance : true We recently released Oracle VM Server for x86 3.2.7. For more information you can go here. In addition we also recently released Oracle Linux 6.5. Find the press release here...
View ArticleEasy access to Java SE 7 on Oracle Linux
In order to make it very easy to install Java SE 7 on Oracle Linux, we added a Java channel on ULN (http://linux.oracle.com). Here is a brief description of how to enable the channel and install Java...
View ArticleOracle E-Business Suite R12 Pre-Install RPM available for Oracle Linux 5 and 6
One of the things we have been focusing on with Oracle Linux for quite some time now, is making it easy to install and deploy Oracle products on top of it without having to worry about which RPMs to...
View ArticleOpenStack for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
We just made an announcement today about support for OpenStack with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. The press release can be found here.
View ArticleChannel subscription from command-line support added to the Unbreakable Linux...
Until recently, to add channels to a server or to register a server as a yum-repository server, one had to log into ULN and manually do this. First a server had to be tagged as a yum server and then...
View ArticleUnbreakable Linux Network APIs available
Aside from the uln_channel tool that we recently released, we are now also supporting a number of webservices on ULN. A handful of useful APIs are available. Below is a little simple python example...
View ArticleUnbreakable Linux Network APIs example
I posted a short blog entry about the recently released ULN APIs the other day with a sample of how to call the different APIs. Here is a concrete example to use the API to find a package in a channel...
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