Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
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Oracle Linux Server 6
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| Developer | Oracle Corporation |
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| OS family | Linux |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 26 October 2006 |
| Latest release | 7.3 / 10 November 2016 |
| Marketing target | Enterprise and Cloud computing |
| Update method | YUM (PackageKit) |
| Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
| Platforms | IA-32, x86-64, SPARC |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
| Default user interface | GNOME and KDE (user-selectable) |
| License | GNU GPL & various others. |
| Official website | www |
Oracle Linux (OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. It is compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code, replacing Red Hat branding by Oracle's. It also used by Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems such as Oracle Exadata and others.
Potential users can freely download Oracle Linux through Oracle's E-delivery service (Oracle Software Delivery Cloud) or from a variety of mirror sites, and can deploy and distribute it without cost. The company's Oracle Linux Support program aims to provide commercial technical support, covering Oracle Linux and existing RHEL or CentOS installations but without any certification from the former (i.e. without re-installation or re-boot). As of 2016[update] Oracle Linux had over 15,000 customers subscribed to the support program.
Oracle Corporation distributes Oracle Linux with two alternative kernels:
Oracle promotes Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel as having 100% compatibility with RHEL. Oracle claims unilaterally this allows unchanged installation and run of Oracle middleware and third-party RHEL-certified applications, but it does not provide any reference to third-party documentation.
Oracle Linux is certified on servers including from IBM,Hewlett-Packard,Dell,Lenovo, and Cisco. In 2010, Force10 announced support for Oracle VM Server for x86 and Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux is also available on Amazon EC2 as an Amazon Machine Image, and on Microsoft Windows Azure as a VM Image.
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