[ Thanks to SMK for this link.
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“Oracle is now out with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5
(OEL)- a week after its base, Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL)
was released.“That’s pretty quick and in my view, one of the quickest
turnarounds yet from Oracle with their version of RHEL. Oracle has
been releasing its own version of Linux with OEL, based on RHEL
since 2006 and they’ve been updating OEL as Red Hat updates
RHEL.“Over the years, Oracle has told me, that OEL isn’t a fork of
RHEL, but it is Oracle’s effort to provide support for Oracle
customers.”