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Oracle Linux Is No Longer an RHEL Clone

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Oct 23, 2007

“First, let’s make this clear. Oracle Unbreakable Linux was, is
now and is for the foreseeable future going to be based on Red
Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux codebase.

“It is not, however, going to be simply RHEL’s twin in every
way.

“When Oracle first announced the release of Unbreakable Linux,
many people saw it as a purely anti-Red Hat move…”

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