Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Is Tracking Linux 5.4

Oracle has released a developer preview of their forthcoming Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 to Oracle Linux users, the company's spin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With Oracle UEK 6, Linux 5.4 serves as the new base...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-UEK6-Developer-Preview

[tildearrow]

Breakable

[timofonic]

Breakable

Broken...

It's Oracle, after all...

[Ronshere]

And the Titanic was Unsinkable

[CommunityMember]

Breakable

Hubris, thy name is Oracle.

[tildearrow]

Hubris, thy name is Oracle.

I am waiting for the Sun's resurrection...

[ed31337]

I am waiting for the Sun's resurrection...

I'm waiting for Oracle to go the way of SCO.

[C8292]

I don't understand all the hate to Oracle Linux. It's a better spin of RHEL than CentOS:

• A lot faster security updates availability compared with CentOS
• UEK provides a lot more recent kernel
• A lot of nice Oracle yum repos

It's only advantages over CentOS, without any disadvantage

[lucrus]

I don't understand all the hate to Oracle Linux

Oracle is evil.

It's only advantages over CentOS, without any disadvantage

You should be comparing it to RHEL, not to Centos.

[C8292]

You should be comparing it to RHEL, not to Centos.

Why? I'm comparing solutions that have free updates without commercial support. And having the same requirements Oracle Linux outperforms CentOS in speed-to-release-updates and availability of newer kernels via UEK is also very appealing.