OEL 4.8 was released on ULN and on the Oracle public yum repository on May 26, 2009. There are 6 new channels on ULN, el4_u8_i386_base, el4_u8_i386_patch, el4_u8_x86_64_base, el4_u8_x86_64_patch, el4_u8_ia64_base, el4_u8_ia64_patch. ISOs will soon be available as usual on eDelivery. Updated...
Last week a new Oracle Yum repository went live. It contains OEL4 Updates, OEL5 Updates and Oracle VM. It provides a quick way to install new updates as an alternative to downloading the full ISOs from eDelivery. Note that single...
In the last couple of months we have added a few webpages to the Oracle.com website. They give more details about the OEL and OVM products, and also add a comprehensive list of technical contributions the Oracle Linux Engineering Team...
There is a bug in glibc with calloc() not returning zeroed memory when the process address space is locked, for instance by a call to mlockall(). Versions of glibc affected are: * RHEL-4.6 and OEL-4.6: glibc-2.3.4-2.39, all architectures. * RHEL-5.1...
The kernel errata that was made available by Red Hat on August 6 2008 fixes the RHEL4.7 kernel problem mentioned in my last entry. We have issued a corresponding OE4.7 kernel errata, even though we already had the fix in...
OEL 4.7 was released on ULN on August 1 2008. There are 6 new channels, el4_u7_i386_base, el4_u7_i386_patch, el4_u7_x86_64_base, el4_u7_x86_64_patch, el4_u7_ia64_base, el4_u7_ia64_patch. ISOs will be available as usual on eDelivery and OSS will have the SRPMs. Updated documentation: ULN Whitepaper Unbreakable...
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