MySQL 8.0.5 community edition preview for Oracle Linux 7 for ARM64 (preview)
We just published a build of MySQL 8.0.5 community server on yum.oracle.com, In the ARM64 "latest" repo.We released an Oracle Linux 7.4 based preview for ARM64 servers a little while ago. See the...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 update 5 preview available for download
Oracle Linux 7 update 5 is in the works... and in order to give users a free sneak preview of what's coming we put a preview release out on OTN. We typically haven't done this in the past and just...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 UEK5 - preview updated from 4.14.20 to 4.14.23 for both x64...
latest update of uek5 preview is on https://yum.oracle.comOracle Linux 7 Server - Developer preview Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 5kernel-uek-4.14.23-1.el7uek - The Linux kernel (Update) # rpm...
View ArticleOracle Container Services for use with Kubernetes(1.9.1) 1.1.9
We just released Oracle Container Services for use with Kubernetes 1.1.9. This is based on Kubernetes 1.9.1.There are also docker images to get going easily. You can download them from the Oracle...
View ArticleOracle Linux in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and on-premises.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a really great platform to run many types of operating systems on many compute instance shapes available with larger amounts of NVMe storage, lots of threads or cores and...
View ArticleOracle Linux 7 UEK5 preview 4.14.26
We just updated the UEK5 kernel preview to 4.14.26-1. The latest version is based on upstream stable 4.14.26 and can be found in our UEK5 preview channel.The preview channel also has a number of other...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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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 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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