Oracle Offers Its Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel On GitHub

[brrrrttttt]

What sort of hooks do they have in there that allow them to sue you down the track? I'd be surprised if there's nothing from Oracle.

[Rallos Zek]

What sort of hooks do they have in there that allow them to sue you down the track? I'd be surprised if there's nothing from Oracle.

Nothing! Since they release the sources under the same terms as the Vanilla Kernel what makes you think they are using hooks to do some underhanded stuff? Are you trolling or in need of a tin foil hat?

[schmidtbag]

What a dumb name. You're basically putting out the call for people to find vulnerabilities. In the context of something like bug bounties this can be a good thing. But if you're a company that's pretty much despised and you call something 'unbreakable' you're basically asking for trouble.

I came here to say pretty much the exact same thing. But, this is Oracle we're talking about there - they're known for over-emphasizing how important they are.

[kpedersen]

As I remember the UEK kernel broke a couple of build scripts on the NVIDIA AKmod from rpmfusion.
Basically it would grab the folder for the kernel-headers when really it needed to use the kernel-headers-UEK folder. Annoying

Just one to look out for if anyone decides to test it

[Vistaus]

Are they too lazy to properly upstream their changes or what?

The Linux team won't accept their patches and changes unless they rewrite everything in Rust and push the code to GitLab instead of GitHub :P

[wizard69]

What a dumb name. You're basically putting out the call for people to find vulnerabilities. In the context of something like bug bounties this can be a good thing. But if you're a company that's pretty much despised and you call something 'unbreakable' you're basically asking for trouble.

Maybe that is the goal! The more people they have trying to break it the better.

[kaczu]

Nothing! Since they release the sources under the same terms as the Vanilla Kernel what makes you think they are using hooks to do some underhanded stuff? Are you trolling or in need of a tin foil hat?

Um where have you been? Oracle changes software licenses on a dime if they can make money from it.

[wizard69]

They're busy migrating everything from slowlaris.

I find it funny that people are upset with Oracle and their desire to phase out solaris. If nothing else Oracle is acknowledging that Linux is a better tecknowolge.

As for upstreaming who says Oracle hasnt? I dont know of anybody going through the commit logs to verify committer identity lately.

i dont think many from the tin foil community realize that Oracle is a business and as such needs to protect itself from those that want its business. Oracle can leversge and support an open source kernel because there is no value in the operating system to them. They add value at a higher level just like Apple and many other companies.

[uid313]

Its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) rebranded.
Better stay away from Oracle and use RHEL instead.

[starshipeleven]

i dont think many from the tin foil community realize that Oracle is a business and as such needs to protect itself from those that want its business.

There is a line between protecting your own businness and patent/legal trolling (i.e. attacking other businnesses through legal means as a way to extract profit from them). Omnomnomnomracle has traditionally been on the legal trolling side.

Oracle can leversge and support an open source kernel because there is no value in the operating system to them. They add value at a higher level just like Apple and many other companies.

Btrfs development for example. Oracle has men working full-time on that.