Blogger brian proffitt spoke with groklaws pamela jones on the issue, and her take is that a victory for oracle would. After the pandemic is over, the tech giants could have all the power, warns recode cofounder kara swisher, and absolutely none of the accountability at least all the power that will truly matter. Ive had success on smaller projects with the soekris offerings but they are suboptimal for largescale deployment due to their singleboard nonredundant design eg. Some experts argue that it is the popularity of linux that makes it a target. An anonymous reader writes in spite of linux s great networking capabilities, there seems to be a shortage of suitable hardware for building an enterprisegrade networking platform.
Oracle drops suns commitment to accessibility slashdot. Red hat and hp establish linux storage lab slashdot. But still a consistent, nice looking free desktopenvironment is missing. Pwn2own in the past has typically focused mostly on web browsers, running on windows and macos. Andrew writes ibm has thrown a spanner in the oracle linux works by refusing to certify that ibms software portfolio will run and be supported on oracle unbreakable linux. Blogger brian proffitt spoke with groklaws pamela jones on the issue, and her take is that a victory for oracle would be bad news for developers. Whats new with oracle s free and opensource hosted hypervisor. As one of the three big makers of graphics chips for pcsthe other two are intel and amd, both of which are longtime linux foundation membersnvidias increased participation in linux could be big news for users of the free and open source operating system. Oracle restricts access to sun firmware downloads slashdot.
Called focal fossa, it is an lts version, meaning long term support. Also various governments around the world have rejected windows for linux lately, the tide is turning. Oracle database redaction trivial to bypass, says david litchfield. Mark hachman writes in slash datacenter that the sparc t5 chip oracle announced earlier this year apparently wont be ready until sometime in 20. Oracle brings realtime kernel patching to oracle enterprise linux. Oracle linux is free to download, use and distribute and is provided in a variety of installation and deployment methods installation media iso images for oracle linux and oracle vm are freely available from the oracle software delivery cloud individual rpm packages for released versions of oracle linux as well as updateerrata packages can be obtained from the oracle linux yum server. This is the conclusion that many are coming to as the postpandemic future begins to come into focus. This means not just phone calls but also patches, security fixes, and backports, in addition to indemnification from lawsuits like scos. Linux as he delivered the first linux products, transitioned oracle s programming staff from windows to linux desktops, and turned oracle into a linux distributor with the launch of its red hat enterprise linux.
Wall street sure is signaling that the power lies with tech companies, vaulting. Linux format got hold of the unbreakable distro to find o. This is a very sad day for disabled people, as it means we do not really have fulltime developers any more. For the past five days, people have been reporting their web browser would open on. These corrections are now in the forthcoming linux 5. The 45th version of the openbsd project has been released, bringing more hardware support radeon driver updates, intel microcode integration, and more, a virtualization tool that supports the disk format qcow2, and a network interface where you can quickly join and switch between different wifi networks. The risk presented by this flaw, cve2017364, becomes elevated especially if attackers are already present on a vulnerable system. An anonymous reader writes what i feared has come true.
Norsefire writes nvidia is joining the linux foundation, along with three other tobeannounced companies. Canonical has released the newest version of its ubuntu linux distribution, ubuntu 20. Oracle sues companies it says provide solaris os support in. Oracle settles ftc charges regarding deceptive java security updates. However, note that if you have an oracle premium support contract all oracle support is premium. Wim coekaerts, formerly oracles senior vp of linux and virtualization engineering, has left oracle for microsoft. Crostini gpu support will be enabled by default for a crisp, lowerlatency experience. So, linux kernel developer arnd bergmann and others have been working on a repair. The british museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1. Major linux and open source distributors made patches available monday, and systems running linux, openbsd, netbsd, freebsd or solaris on i386 or amd64 hardware should be updated soon. How red hats new ceo handles life under ibm and a global pandemic. Msaunders writes two days ago slashdot reported on oracles move into the enterprise linux market, and how it may challenge red hat.
Linux as he delivered the first linux products, transitioned oracles programming staff from windows to linux desktops, and turned oracle into a linux distributor with the launch of its red. Linux and, particularly ubuntu, are incredibly secure systems but, that being said, it is their popularity that makes. Tiny oracle get is a oracle db gui tool on linuxwindows for developers. Wim coekaerts, formerly oracle s senior vp of linux and virtualization engineering, has left oracle for microsoft. Oracles sparc t5 chip evidently pushed back to 20 slashdot. The boost for renewables is due to a seasonal increase in lowcost solar and hydro power. According to the register, solaris 12 has been removed from oracle roadmaps. Cowboyneal writes last week, oracle announced that they were making oracle linux available free of charge, and also provided a script that makes switching to oracle linux nearly painless for existing centos users. In this first installment of a four part series, linuxorbit takes a look at aol instant messaging clients available for gnu linux. Read on to find out, as i delve into what oracle linux has to offer. What makes oracle linux unique, and why would anyone want to use it. Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coalfired power in the united states for a record 40 straight days, according to a report based on u. Mbtronics writes i work at an embedded hardwaresoftware company and we are currently moving all our products for windows ce to linux.
The linux foundation hosted the executive director of the freebsd foundation, deb goodkin, at the open source summit in san diego. In a somewhat surprising move and without any notification to customers, oracle shut down public access to firmware downloads. Last week, oracle sued it services providers terix and maintech, alleging they have engaged in a deliberate scheme to misappropriate and distribute ed, proprietary oracle software code in the course of providing support for customers using. The boost for renewables is due to a seasonal increase in lowcost solar and hydro power generation, alongside an overall. If you already have a commercial license, you should download your software from the oracle software delivery cloud, which is specifically designed for customer fulfillment. Oracle named database of the year, mongodb comes second. I can imagine it makes sense to run solaris on x86 hardware in case you already have a solaris infrastructure or have specific solaris requirements, otherwise i guess oracle linux will be a more economic option.
Essentially, oracle is claiming that, while an individual api might not. It supports db browsing, comparison of sql results, ddl output, drawing erdiagram automatically, excel friendly interface with multilanguage. Whats new with oracles free and opensource hosted hypervisor. Oracle staff report big layoffs across solaris, sparc teams. You are expected to dockerize your setups and be able to launch a whole string of processes to boot up various containers with databases and your primary php monolith with the launch of a single. Today oracle announced a new world record tpch 300 gigabyte gb data warehousing benchmark for oracle r database 10g release 2 and oracle real application clusters on red hat enterprise linux, overtaking ibm db2s best benchmark performance in the same category. Oracle and the end of programming as we know it slashdot. The new microsoft has place an increased importance on the cloud, and with other companies following suit, reliance on server solutions has increased. Last week, oracle sued it services providers terix and maintech, alleging they have engaged in a deliberate scheme to misappropriate and distribute ed, proprietary oracle software code in the course of providing support for. After 8 years of remoteaccess trojans attacks, can we still say linux is secure. Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly linux.
That copy can be then restored when setting up a new computer. Pcm2 writes its not oracle linux, but larry ellison has announced that oracle will be providing full enterprise support for linux. A company i work with is looking at using oracle as the database backend for a number of large scale intranet applications. The intrusion took place on saturday night at around 8 pm us pacific coast, and was detected before the attackers could do any harm, the lineageos team said in a statement. There are several nice either free or lowpriced applications available so that linux x11 would almost fit everybody needs if we could offer a real gui, wrote the developer back in october 14, 1996.
If oracle began to distribute and support linux, it would mean good things for linux in general, while red hat deploys linux to the enterprise sector, they are a linux based company, whereas oracle is a much wider known and respected brand, their adoption of linux for enterprise could cause a slew of companies to adopt as well. Dell is switching internal servers to linux, while novell is dropping windows in favor of its own linux desktop software for pcs. An anonymous reader quotes a report from bleeping computer. Longtime slashdot reader qbertino is your typical linuxapachemysqlphp lamp developer, and writes that in recent years docker has been the hottest thing since sliced bread. Msaunders writes two days ago slashdot reported on oracle s move into the enterprise linux market, and how it may challenge red hat. Its interesting to note that open source projects are way ahead of. Ive had success on smaller projects with the soekris offerings but they are suboptimal for largescale deployment du. Our core development team already uses their favorite distro for development, but the rest of the developers are still working on windows. Not too long after linus torvalds wrote his own unix kernel, which he called linux, in the summer of 1991, a magazine was founded by enthusiasts to focus on the operating system. Writing for linux security, slashdot reader bdayyy gathered some additional responses. Joe mcmanus, director of security at canonical, explains. Oracle to compete with red hat for linux support slashdot.
Hackers have gained access to the core infrastructure of lineageos, a mobile operating system based on android, used for smartphones, tablets, and settop boxes. Oracle to finish linux makeover this year slashdot. In this episode of lets talk, we sat down with goodkin to talk about the freebsd project and the foundation. Google trial jury to rule on the same question under u. The issue is very much unsettled in the courts, but the. This longtermsupport lts version is more than just the latest version of one of the most popular linux distributions. Linux kernel head linus torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the zfs filesystem that was designed by sun microsystems and now owned by oracle due to licensing issues, reports zdnet. Computer literate people with some tech skills also like to use it as their desktop os. Oracle sues companies it says provide solaris os support. Red hats stock has already dropped, and theres a great deal of talk about the implications of this act. In this first installment of a four part series, linuxorbit takes a look at aol instant messaging clients available for gnulinux.
Today oracle announced a new world record tpch 300 gigabyte gb data warehousing benchmark for oracler database 10g release 2 and oracle real application clusters on red hat enterprise linux, overtaking ibm db2s best benchmark performance in the same category. A new cyber attack is hijacking routers dns settings so that web browsers display alerts for a fake covid19 information app from the world health organization that is the oski informationstealing malware. Youll be warned when using a linux app that does not support virtual keyboard in tablet mode. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards linux and open source issues.
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