Oracle Linux 8.2 distribution available

Oracle Company опубликовала industrial distribution release OracleLinux 8.2, created on the basis of the package database Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. To download without restrictions, but after free registration, available installation iso-image, 6.6 GB in size, prepared for x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. For Oracle Linux open unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary updates of packages with bug fixes (errata) and security issues. For download also prepared by separately supported Application Stream modules.

In addition to the RHEL kernel package (based on the 4.18 kernel), Oracle Linux offers its own kernel Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6, based on the Linux 5.4 kernel and optimized for industrial software and Oracle hardware. The kernel sources, including the breakdown into individual patches, are available in the public domain. Git repositories Oracle. The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is installed by default, positioned as an alternative to the standard package with the RHEL kernel and provides a number of extended opportunitiessuch as DTrace integration and improved Btrfs support. With the exception of the core functionality Oracle Linux 8.2 and RHEL 8.2 releases are completely identical (List of changes in Oracle Linux 8.2 repeats List of changes in RHEL 8.2).

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