Oracle Enterprise Linux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution supported by Oracle. According to the project's web site, "Oracle starts with Red Hat Linux, removes Red Hat trademarks, and then adds Linux bug fixes." Oracle Enterprise Linux is, and intends to remain, fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Simon Coter has announced the release of Oracle Linux 7 Update 9, a new build of the companys enterprise-class Linux distributions legacy branch, compiled from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9: "Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update 9, which includes Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 6 as the default kernel. UEK Release 6 is based on the mainline Linux kernel 5.4, supplying more innovation than other commercial Linux kernels: arm - enhanced support for the Arm (aarch64) platform, including improvements in the areas of security and virtualization; Cgroup v2 - UEK R6 includes all Cgroup v2 features, along with several enhancements; ktask - ktask is a framework for parallelizing CPU-intensive work in the kernel, it can be used to speed up large tasks on systems with available CPU power, where a task is single-threaded in user space; parallelized kswapd - page replacement is handled in the kernel asynchronously by kswapd, and synchronously by direct reclaim.
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Oracle Enterprise Linux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution supported by Oracle. According to the project's web site, "Oracle starts with Red Hat Linux, removes Red Hat trademarks, and then adds Linux bug fixes." Oracle Enterprise Linux is, and intends to remain, fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
