Oracle Linux 6.1, Oracle's Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone, is now available for download, just a couple of weeks after RHEL 6.1 became available. Since Oracle doesn't stray too much from the original, there aren't any big changes compared to RHEL 6.1, apart from Oracle's own "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" being used by default.
CentOS developer Karanbir Singh has announced the availability of CentOS 6.0 for download.CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux-based operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unlike RHEL, it is a community project but, like RHEL, its target users are the enterprise users. One of the best feature of CentOS is its 100% binary compatibility with RHEL.
RHEL clone Scientific Linux 6.three released Primarily created by CERN and other labs and universities, Scientific Linux is the last of the three main RHEL clones to publish its version of RHEL 6.3: Oracle made its RHEL derivative available at the end of June and this was followed by the CentOS … Read a lot [...]
Oracle Linux 5.7, a Red Hat Enterprise clone created by Oracle, has been released. The latest version brings all of the new features and fixes found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, which has been available for a little over a week, plus a few patches of its own.
For all intents and purposes, it is fully compatible with RHEL 5.7... (read more)
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Judging from the mailing list, Oracle still doesn't support RHEL/SL/CentOS, and, of course, their own unbreakable Linux--hrrm, does that mean that installing Oracle on Oracle Linux breaks the ... [by scottro]
Ever since the recent OpenSolaris and Java lawsuit incidents, Oracle has not been high on most FOSS aficionados' lists of favorite companies. So when the company announced earlier this month that it was abandoning RHEL in favor of its own, homemade Linux kernel -- the "Unbreakable" Linux Kernel -- it wasn't surprising that the skepticism was palpable.
Oracle has announced on January 16 that Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 9 is now available for download, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
As you would expect from the version numbering, Oracle Linux 5.9 is based on Red Hat 5.9, the latest version launched in the 5.x series.
According to Oracle, their ope... (read more)
The CentOS community released its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 clone, promising continuous release updates to support RHEL 6.1 security features.