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Linux Top 5: Oracle Chases Red Hat Release Cycle

“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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