Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 8. With Oracle Linux 8, the core operating environment and associated packages for a...
Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 8. With Oracle Linux 8, the core operating environment and associated packages for a typical Oracle Linux 8 server are distributed through a combination of BaseOS and Applications Streams. BaseOS gives you a running user space for the operating environment. Application Streams provides a range of applications that were previously distributed in Software Collections, as well as other products and...
Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 8. With Oracle Linux 8, the core operating environment and associated packages for a typical Oracle Linux 8 server are...
Contents: Why Arm Toolset 8? | devtoolset-8 or armtoolset-8? | Steps | (1) Download .repo | (2) Enable the collection | (3) yum install | (4) Start a shell...
Contents: Why Arm Toolset 8? | devtoolset-8 or armtoolset-8? | Steps | (1) Download .repo | (2) Enable the collection | (3) yum install | (4) Start a shell | (5) Verify | (6) Problems? | Sources Why Use Oracle Arm Toolset 8? Oracle Linux 7 for Arm includes "Oracle Arm Toolset 8", which provides many popular development tools, including: gcc v8.2.0 Supports the 2017 revision of the ISO C standard. g++ v8.2.0 Supports the 2017 revision of the ISO C++ standard. gfortran v8.2.0...
Contents: Why Arm Toolset 8? | devtoolset-8 or armtoolset-8? | Steps | (1) Download .repo | (2) Enable the collection | (3) yum install | (4) Start a shell | (5) Verify | (6) Problems? | Sources Why...
We are pleased to announce an exciting new release of the Oracle Cloud Developer Image on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Oracle Cloud Developer Image is an...
We are pleased to announce an exciting new release of the Oracle Cloud Developer Image on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Oracle Cloud Developer Image is an Oracle Linux 7 based, ready-to-run image that allows you to rapidly set up a development environment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the latest Oracle Cloud Infrastructure client tools and Software Development Kits (SDKs), choice of development languages, and database connectors and tools. By deploying the...
We are pleased to announce an exciting new release of the Oracle Cloud Developer Image on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Oracle Cloud Developer Image is an Oracle Linux 7 based, ready-to-run image...
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...
A new feature of Ksplice is Known Exploit Detection. When you patch your system with Ksplice, not only is the security vulnerability closed, but also tripwires...
A new feature of Ksplice is Known Exploit Detection. When you patch your system with Ksplice, not only is the security vulnerability closed, but also tripwires are laid down for privilege escalation vulnerabilities. If an attacker attempts to exploit a CVE you’ve patched, Ksplice notifies you.
A new feature of Ksplice is Known Exploit Detection. When you patch your system with Ksplice, not only is the security vulnerability closed, but also tripwires are laid down for privilege...
We are pleased to announce Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows release 1.1.3. The Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows are paravirtualized (PV)...
We are pleased to announce Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows release 1.1.3. The Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows are paravirtualized (PV) drivers for Microsoft Windows guests that are running on Oracle Linux KVM. The Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows improve performance for network and block (disk) devices on Microsoft Windows guests and resolve common issues. What's New The Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows 1.1.3 provides a new...
We are pleased to announce Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows release 1.1.3. The Oracle VirtIO Drivers for Microsoft Windows are paravirtualized (PV) drivers for Microsoft Windows guests that...
In this blog post, Oracle Linux kernel developer Rahul Yadav discusses a few details about version 2 of his libresource project. As discussed in my previous...
In this blog post, Oracle Linux kernel developer Rahul Yadav discusses a few details about version 2 of his libresource project. As discussed in my previous blog[1] on libresource, we are working on a library which provides APIs to get system resource information for user-land applications. The system resource information includes information related to memory, networking, devices and various other statistics. Currently an application developer needs to read this information...
In this blog post, Oracle Linux kernel developer Rahul Yadav discusses a few details about version 2 of his libresource project. As discussed in my previous blog[1] on libresource, we are working on a...
This post was updated on 20 March, 2019 to reflect changes in the way yum configuration works. A few months ago we added dedicated repositories for Node.js to...
This post was updated on 20 March, 2019 to reflect changes in the way yum configuration works. A few months ago we added dedicated repositories for Node.js to the Oracle Linux yum server. These repos also include an RPM with the Oracle Database driver for Node.js, node-oracledb, so you can connect your Node.js application to the Oracle Database. In this post I describe the steps to install Node.js 10 and node-oracledb Node.js to Oracle Database. If you are in a rush or want...
This post was updated on 20 March, 2019 to reflect changes in the way yum configuration works. A few months ago we added dedicated repositories for Node.js to the Oracle Linux yum server. These...
