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Linux Top 5: Oracle Chases Red Hat Release Cycle

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 21, 2011

“The current leading edge of RHEL releases is the 6.2 branch.
Red Hat released RHEL 6.2on December 7, providing new cgroups
resource control features.

Just over a week later, Oracle released its RHEL-based Linux
release, Oracle Linux 6.2. Oracle Linux 6.2 differs from the RHEL
6.2 release in a few key areas, most notably the kernel. Oracle
uses its Unbreakable Linux Kernel (kernel-uek) and provides
additional support for the OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster Filesystem).


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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