Oracle has announced the release to general availability of Oracle Linux 6.2 for x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) architectures. Both, Oracle explains, ship with two sets of kernel packages and include both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel:
1: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek] (installed and booted by default)
and
2: Red Hat Compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-220.el6] (installed by default)
This release also includes several network driver updates and storage driver updates.
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Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3, Oracle's advanced C, C++ and Fortran development tool suite, delivers accelerated application performance of up to 300% on Oracle Systems. The release provides extreme application observability and enhances developer productivity. Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 is optimized for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems to deliver up to 300% faster SPARC T4 and up to 150% faster x86-based applications with Oracle Solaris Studio C, C++ and Fortran compilers, Terri Wischmann blogs. Users can perform remote development of server-applications from any Oracle Solaris, Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS desktop.
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LibreOffice can be enhanced with hundreds of extensions and templates that users can download to improve the suite’s functionality to fit their respective needs, and developers can easily write their own add-ons and share them with millions of users worldwide. The LibreOffice community has put great effort into launching a public repository that includes not only extensions and templates for LibreOffice, but also for OpenOffice.org and other compatible office suites. All extensions submitted during the public beta test will remain in the repository after the beta test.
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Oracle VM 3.0 is four times more scalable than the latest VMware offering, and it supports up to 128 virtual CPUs per virtual machine, at a fraction of the cost. Oracle VM 3.0 has demonstrated support for up to 160 physical CPUs and 2TB memory using Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers. Furthermore, when compared to VMware vSphere5 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest VMs, Oracle VM 3.0 running Oracle Linux guest VMs is four times less expensive. Oracle VM is free to download, has zero license cost, and affordable, enterprise-quality support.
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Oracle's Hardware Management Pack comprises two components: an SNMP monitoring agent and a family of cross platform Command Line (CLI) tools for managing and configuring Oracle Sun Fire x86 servers. The Sun Server Management Agent component provides an in-band SNMP agent for monitoring the server hardware and storage. The cross platform command line tools run on Solaris, Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux, and current releases from Red Hat and Novell), and Microsoft Windows 2008.
The tools. listed below, provide powerful and flexible configuration and update capabilities.
ilomconfig, configure the service processor
biosconfig, configure the BIOS
raidconfig, configure RAID components
fwupdate, update firmware
All configuration tools are Capable of loading
The Hardware Management Pack saved the day for Peter Tribble, who blogs about his efforts to build a jumpstart profile and to map from the WWN-based device names to physical positions on the chassis of the SPARC T3-1 and the x86-based X4170 M2.
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