Oracle Linux 7.7-distribusjonen er tilgjengelig

Oracle har publisert utgivelse av industriell distribusjon Oracle Linux 7.7, laget på grunnlag av pakkebasen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. For nedlasting uten begrensninger, men etter gratis registrering, distribueres install ISO-image, with a size of 4.7 GB, prepared for architectures x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64). For Oracle Linux also er åpen unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary updates addressing bugs (errata) and security issues.

In addition to the kernel package from RHEL (3.10.0-1062), Oracle Linux provides released in the summer, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5 (4.14.35-1902.3.2), which is offered by default. The kernel source code, including the breakdown into separate patches, is available publicly in Git-repositorier Oracle. The kernel is positioned as an alternative to the stock kernel package provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and offers a range of utvidede muligheter, such as DTrace integration and improved Btrfs support. Besides the kernel, Oracle Linux 7.7 is functionally similar to RHEL 7.7.

Amongst nye features of Oracle Linux 7.7 (almost all of the mentioned changes are also applicable to RHEL 7.7):

• I NetworkManager er det lagt til mulighet for å angi rutingregler basert på kildeadressen (policy routing) og støtte for VLAN-filtrering på nettverksbrointerfacer;
• Updated package versions include NSS (Network Security Services), scap-security-guide 0.1.43, shadow-utils 4.6, gcc-libraries 8.3.1, linuxptp 2.0, tuned 2.11, chrony 3.4. Added python3 packages with interpreter Python 3.6;
• For containers and images in UBI (Universal Base Image) format, support for scanning contents for compliance with SCAP Security Guide security profiles has been added;
• Support for Btrfs in the RHEL kernel has been declared deprecated (for using Btrfs, UEK R4 and UEK R5 kernels should be used). Packages with MySQL have been removed which should be downloaded from a separate yum repository;
• The graphical installer has added definitions for enabling Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in the system and outputs a corresponding warning;
• Updated driver for NVMe/FC QLogic qla2xxxx;
• For testing in the UEK R5 kernel, experimental features have been proposed:
  • import and export of containers in Systemd,
  • layouts for creating storage as block devices and object storage for pNFS,
  • support for DAX (direct access to FS bypassing page cache without using block device layer) in ext4 and XFS,
  • support for OverlayFS,
  • HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) subsystem for using devices with their own memory controllers,
  • No-IOMMU mode,
  • drivers for Cisco VIC InfiniBand and ibusnic_verbs,
  • support for SR-IOV (Single-Root I/O Virtualization) in the qlcnic driver,
  • support for TNC (Trusted Network Connect),
  • support for input/output using multiple queues (scsi-mq, Multi-queue) in SCSI,
  • plugin for managing storage arrays through the libStorageMgmt API.

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