Kudo's to Oracle's Linux Engineering team and the linux development community looks like all their hard work and attention to detail is starting to pay off.
Linus Torvalds just announced on the linux kernel mailing list that he just released a new kernel 2.6.16-rc1 . read the changelog at kernel.org
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.16-rc1
This new kernel includes a bunch of improvements for various architectures,
and also OCFS2 for those of you who want a high performant general purpose linux cluster file system to run your Oracle RAC on.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/
2006 is going to be another good year for Oracle on Linux. enjoy