Thanks to Chuck Anderson, Linux kernel developer, Oracle, for compiling the information in this post. Enhancements to mainline Linux continue at a steady pace,...
Thanks to Chuck Anderson, Linux kernel developer, Oracle, for compiling the information in this post. Enhancements to mainline Linux continue at a steady pace, though we don’t always hear a lot about this work. With the 5.1 release upon us, we wanted to give a shout out to some important and notable additions that the 5.0 release brought to bear. Some we chose because our kernel developers are directly involved, some because they affect Oracle workloads, and others simply...
Thanks to Chuck Anderson, Linux kernel developer, Oracle, for compiling the information in this post. Enhancements to mainline Linux continue at a steady pace, though we don’t always hear a lot about...
Did you know that in 2017, U.S. federal agencies reported 35,277 cybersecurity incidents for their IT systems? And that in 2018, malicious cyber activity cost...
Did you know that in 2017, U.S. federal agencies reported 35,277 cybersecurity incidents for their IT systems? And that in 2018, malicious cyber activity cost the U.S. economy between $57-109 billion dollars? This new GovLoop market trends report discusses the challenges facing government agencies. Like private enterprises, federal agencies need layers of protection in their data centers and clouds. Several things have been happening in the Oracle Linux group to help our...
Did you know that in 2017, U.S. federal agencies reported 35,277 cybersecurity incidents for their IT systems? And that in 2018, malicious cyber activity cost the U.S. economy between $57-109 billion...
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Oracle Linux KVM Image and the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance application on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. ...
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Oracle Linux KVM Image and the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance application on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now provides ready access to these images for fast and easy deployment using the embedded Marketplace in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You can launch these applications directly from the Marketplace on your OCI Compute instance. With a few clicks, you can get your Oracle Linux KVM and...
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Oracle Linux KVM Image and the Oracle Linux Storage Appliance application on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)...
Have you ever wondered why so many customers choose Oracle Linux to support their mission critical workloads? Or how using Oracle Linux can improve security...
Have you ever wondered why so many customers choose Oracle Linux to support their mission critical workloads? Or how using Oracle Linux can improve security patching, reduce downtime, increase systems performance or offer better licensing terms? In this short video, 3 different customers explain how Oracle Linux has provided them specific advantages. First we hear from Kristl, Seibt & Co who explains how Oracle Linux reduces their time and cost for patching significantly. ...
Have you ever wondered why so many customers choose Oracle Linux to support their mission critical workloads? Or how using Oracle Linux can improve security patching, reduce downtime,...
With so many kernel updates released, it can be difficult to keep track. At Oracle, we monitor kernels on a daily basis and provide bug and security updates...
With so many kernel updates released, it can be difficult to keep track. At Oracle, we monitor kernels on a daily basis and provide bug and security updates administrators can apply without a system reboot. To help out, the Ksplice team has produced the Ksplice Inspector, a web tool to show you the updates Ksplice can apply to your kernel with zero downtime. The Ksplice Inspector is freely available to everyone. If you're running any Ksplice supported kernel, whether it is...
With so many kernel updates released, it can be difficult to keep track. At Oracle, we monitor kernels on a daily basis and provide bug and security updates administrators can apply without a...
In a previous blog post, I described the steps to streamline the pre-installation steps on Oracle Linux for Oracle Database 12c using the Database...
In a previous blog post, I described the steps to streamline the pre-installation steps on Oracle Linux for Oracle Database 12c using the Database preinstallation package. In this post you will learn how to do a fully automated installation of Oracle Database 12c on Oracle Linux running in an Oracle VM VirtualBox guest. The tutorial is based on a Vagrantfile published in our Vagrant repo on GitHub. Because this installation method uses VirtualBox, Vagrant and an Oracle...
In a previous blog post, I described the steps to streamline the pre-installation steps on Oracle Linux for Oracle Database 12c using the Database preinstallation package. In this post you will learn...
... Have Fun, Build Things People Will Use.. In a recent Forbes article, Wim Coekaerts, SVP, Linux and Virtualization Engineering talks about what makes him...
... Have Fun, Build Things People Will Use.. In a recent Forbes article, Wim Coekaerts, SVP, Linux and Virtualization Engineering talks about what makes him happy. In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s effort to make Linux, the open source operating system he’d played with since his school days in Belgium, its OS of record. Now, “Linux has become the operating system of the cloud,” Coekearts says, so he sees lots...
... Have Fun, Build Things People Will Use.. In a recent Forbes article, Wim Coekaerts, SVP, Linux and Virtualization Engineering talks about what makes him happy. In his long career, he’s found joy...
The recent Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) highlighted the need for zero-downtime updates - this was a vulnerability that has been present in the Linux...
The recent Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) highlighted the need for zero-downtime updates - this was a vulnerability that has been present in the Linux kernel for many years, was actively being exploited and could result in a system being easily compromised. The traditional means of closing this vulnerability would be to install a new kernel and reboot it, but new kernels take time to release, and the disruption of rebooting and the time spent to roll this out across...
The recent Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) highlighted the need for zero-downtime updates - this was a vulnerability that has been present in the Linux kernel for many years, was actively...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security vulnerabilities and seeing how they are fixed. We use automated tools such as the Trinity syscall fuzzer and the Kernel Address Sanitizer (KASan) to aid our process. In this blog post we'll go over some case studies of recent vulnerabilities and show you how you can avoid them in your code. CVE-2013-7339 and...
Security vulnerabilities are some of the hardest bugs to discover yet they can have the largest impact. At Ksplice, we spend a lot of time looking at security vulnerabilities and seeing how they...
