Oracle Linux 6.5 Launched, Free Distribution - Includes Major Security, Performance And Stability Features

Oracle launched its much talked about OS, Oracle Linux 6.5 recently. The OS is free and is downloadable at https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux/. The new version is much improved from the previous versions and Oracle confirms that they have put in effort for more scalability and stability of the business critical applications.

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3, included in Oracle Linux 6.5, is based on mainline Linux 3.8, which provides a host of scalability and stability improvements, as well as new functionality.

Another highlight of the OS is that it is the only linux distribution that supports DTrace. The DTrace framework is used by applications for superior observability, troubleshooting and performance analysis. The inclusion should be a real positive for the developers to move to Oracle Linux.

The feature lists doesn't stop here, as the team has also included more production support for linux containers enabling a better Operating system level virtualization.

On the security side, the highlighted feature is the cryptographic datastore which can allow various crypto tools to communicate with the datastore and to process trusted certificates better. Also the OS has extended smartcard authentication to a large count of application subsystems. Thus accounting for their better performance and reliability.

Oracle also claims that the new OS is a performance reliable solution to business critical workloads like Oracle database 12c and the new distribution is widely available for all x86 Oracle engineered systems.

For a detailed feature list: Ciol Article on Oracle Linux 6.5

Source: CIOL

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, December 10, 2013