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Oracle has announced that the RHEL clone Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 (OEL 6) will now also certified to run Oracle 11gR2 DB. In addition, there are now all updates and fixes available free of charge in a public yum repository.

The Oracle Database 11g R2 is now certified for Oracle’s own Linux. This gave the American database maker Oracle announced . The Company assumes that the support for installations of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (R2) and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (R1) on your own Unbreakable Enterprise kernel. The actual certification according to Oracle preceded by numerous tests to ensure that they meet the requirements of both products of operators of large databases.
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Oracle unbreakable linux kernel update to version 3.0.16 (based on the previous kernel 2.6.32). This is noteworthy because:

• The relatively fresh core falls in the corporate sector (enterprise environment).
• Oracle did not hide the overlay patches are available in the repository . Binaries are freely available through the public repository .
• Declared compatible with existing applications, as well as with other similar distributions (rhel, centos, and others).

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NetBeans – an integrated development environment with open source software that allows you to create applications in many programming languages ​​(Java, PHP, C, C + + and others). Today, in the light released version 7.1. Wednesday is available in several languages, some of whom are Russian.

Key features of this release are support for JavaFX 2.0, visual debugging tools for graphical user interfaces for Swing, the ability to work with Git «out of the box.”

Some other important changes:
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Not even two weeks after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, both the free CentOS project as well as the commercial arm “Oracle Linux” has released updated versions of their products. With the release of CentOS nch follows nearly a week the release of version 6.1.

CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 . As this includes the free reproduction of an extended kernel 2.6.32. In addition, the compression of the file has been converted to LZMA initrd.img, which leads to smaller files, among other things. For the network installation can now static IPv6 addresses are used.

Furthermore, the developers have taken driver complemented by Red Hat.

The SCSI driver qla4xxx was modified so that not the firmware, but open-iscsi responsible for the iSCSI administration. In addition, some SCSI drivers have been optimized to make do with fewer locks. In the XFS file system area were, Parallel NFS and CIFS updates.

In the network area of ​​the system call came sendmmsg to send multiple packets at once, Transmit Packet Steering (XPS) and other measures to increase the added speed. It also gave greater improvements in virtualization, KVM and Xen. The former has, among other things, a higher network speeds and supports USB 2.0, supports the latter including Memory ballooning.
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With version 6.2 provides an updated version of its Oracle-based Red Hat Linux distribution building available.

As usual, the Oracle distribution facilities with two kernel is loaded, the kernel of the Unbreakable Enterprise, based on the upstream kernel 2.6.32-46 and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (kernel-2.6.32-220.el6).
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In the project mailing list OpenJFX – an open implementation freymforka JavaFX ™ announced the availability of the source user interface components JavaFX ™ is licensed under the GPLv2 + Classpath Exception (the same as that of the OpenJDK). Open only code components (controls), the implementation of css, stsenegrafa and helpers.
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12/02/2011 in the project mailing list OpenJFX – an open implementation freymforka JavaFX ™ announced the availability of the source user interface components JavaFX ™ is licensed under the GPLv2 + Classpath Exception (the same as that of the OpenJDK). Open only code components (controls), the implementation of css, stsenegrafa and helpers.
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Oracle released version 11 of Solaris and marketed it as the “first cloud OS.”

Oracle has announced the immediate availability of the Solaris version 11 is known. Oracle confident as the “first cloud OS” markets are the focus of the new release supports virtualization and scaling capabilities of technologies such as Solaris Zones, resource control and bandwidth control.

“Unsurpassed cloud security” of the entire application stack is a feature of the new version of Solaris, for example, realized by means of role-based administration, hardware-based encryption and other measures. Even high-availability features to help to the cloud, “to keep it going.”
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Project participants Apache Harmony, opensource implementation of Java, voted to close the project – its source code repository moved to the Apache Attic.

The project has not received from Oracle Benchmarks Technology Compatibility Kit, required for certification and protection from patent threats. In addition, with the release of Java 7 have been adopted rules under which are not allowed free alternative implementation of Java.
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Oracle has given a preview of the next generation of its Linux kernel.

Among other things, the “Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2″, a port of DTrace included.

Oracle remains committed to both Solaris and Linux , like Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief architect, at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco announced. In his presentation, Screven gave an outlook for the next version of Oracle Enterprise Linux. The basis of “Unbreakable Linux 2″ is the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which was adapted from Oracle and expanded in some areas. Among other things, Oracle claims to have increased the speed considerably in some areas.

Oracle indicates the customer only recommended and not even his own Linux compatibility testing of its software with other Linux distributions to perform more.

According to information from Oracle, the Linux kernel has undergone numerous additional automated tests. The kernel is in some points that were not specified in detail, up to 75% faster than that of Red Hat. A new version of this kernel is not now in public beta test.
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