Oracle Linux 6.7 released

[Posted July 30, 2015 by ris]

Oracle has announced the release of Oracle Linux 6.7. As usual this release features both a Red Hat compatible kernel and Oracle's enterprise kernel. Some notable features include Open Security Content Automation Protocol (OpenSCAP), including the oscap utility for enhanced security auditing and compliance, Load Balancing and High Availability with Keepalived and HAProxy, supported under Oracle Linux Premier Support subscriptions, Enhanced SSSD support for Active Directory, and more. See the release notes for details.

Oracle Linux 6.7 released

Posted Jul 31, 2015 0:25 UTC (Fri) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (3 responses)

Aka CentOS, Oracle Edition, with a sweet kernel and DTrace out of the box.

Oracle Linux 6.7 released

Posted Jul 31, 2015 5:25 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (2 responses)

That's quite clever, I suppose, Oracle is pretty much the only party that is incontrovertibly legally allowed to ship the kernel + Dtrace ?

Oracle Linux 6.7 released

Posted Jul 31, 2015 6:48 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

no, it's not clear that Oracle is really allowed to ship that combination (without relicensing DTrace anyway), but none of the kernel devs have decided to take on Amazon over the issue yet.

As it is, it can be argued that either Oracle is shipping the DTrace code under GPLv2 when it's combined with the kernel, or they are violating the GPL by shipping it.

I would love to see some kernel dev push this issue.

Oracle Linux 6.7 released

Posted Aug 8, 2015 20:18 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Well, considering they ship d-trace as part of a GPL product, perhaps we can simply consider it GPL? I'd love to see another distro ship it and get sued by Oracle...

Oracle Linux 6.7 released

Posted Jul 31, 2015 8:10 UTC (Fri) by kev_ford (guest, #94610) [Link]

SCAP. Ten times better.