Ars Technica

Tip: Minimal X11 installation for a graphical Oracle install

When installing Oracle on Linux, and not using the silent install file, you need to be able to launch X11 sessions from the server to an X11 client (your desktop).<BR><BR>Typically the Linux server is ...
Ars Technica

Linux for Oracle

I'm an Oracle DBA for a software company. Where I work, I run across all kinds of versions of Oracle - 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 9.2.0.x, 10g R1 and 10g R2.<BR>At one time I built a home server and had Ubuntu ...
Forbes

With Autonomous Linux, Oracle Keeps Server Apps Running During Patching

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...
ZDNet

Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux

Oracle on Monday announced Oracle Autonomous Linux, an autonomous operating system. Autonomous Linux provisions itself, scales itself, tunes itself and patches itself while running. "Autonomy is the ...
Linux Journal

Oracle Linux on Btrfs for the Raspberry Pi

Enterprise comes to the micro server. Oracle Linux 7 has been released for the Raspberry Pi 3. The release packages Btrfs as the root filesystem on the UEK-branded Linux 4.14 Long Term Support (LTS) ...