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Oracle released the first commercial database on Linux in 1998. Today, only Oracle provides support for the complete stack—enterprise applications, middleware, database, and the operating system.

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What's New
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Blog: Oracle VM 2.1.2 New Features
Wim Coekaerts describes the new features in release 2.1.2 of Oracle VM, including HA for guest VMs, automated VMware-to-Oracle VM conversion, and Oracle RAC certification.
posted Sep 26, 2008
Oracle Cloud Computing Center
Oracle Database 11g and 10g Express Edition, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Oracle Fusion Middleware are now certified/supported for Amazon EC2. Oracle enables database backup to Amazon S3.
posted Sep 22, 2008
Technical White Paper: Oracle VM - Creating & Maintaining a Highly Available Environment for Guest VMs
This white paper provides an overview of the functionality provided by Oracle VM to help you dramatically improve guest VM and workload uptime, including features such as Server Pool Load Balancing, Secure Live Migration, and Guest VM High Availability.
posted Sep 19, 2008
Blog: Kickstarting Oracle Unbreakable Linux
In this personal blog Johan Louwers describes his organization's approach to making a data center switchover to Oracle Enterprise Linux.
posted Aug 21, 2008
Article: More Support for the Kernel
This Oracle Magazine article overviews the current state of Oracle's Linux Kernel development projects, including Btrfs, T10 Data Integrity Field, and IPv6 support for Linux NFS.
posted Aug 5, 2008
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.7 Now Available
Read Wim Coekaerts' wiki page for information about the new release of Oracle Enteprise Linux 4 update 7.
posted Aug 1, 2008

Installation Guides
Note: not supported unless otherwise indicated!
Oracle Database 11g on x86; generic (Oracle - supported)
Oracle Database 11g on x86; Enterprise Linux 5 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 11g on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (Pythian Group)
Oracle VM 2.1.2 Manager & Server on Enterprise Linux 5 U2 (OTN Installfest)
Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI (Jeff Hunter)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86; generic (Oracle - supported)
Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on x86; RHEL4 and SLES9 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86; RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on SLES10 (Novell)
Oracle Database XE on Xubuntu (Todd Trichler)
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Meet the Oracle Linux Kernel Team! (Podcasts)
Chris Mason on kernel development overall
Kurt Hackel on Oracle VM
Chris Mason on Btrfs
Zach Brown on RDS and Asynch I/O
Chuck Lever on NFS and storage management

Popular Technical Articles
Basic Linux Shell Scripting for Oracle DBAs
Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
Convert a Single Instance Database to Oracle RAC 10g on Linux
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 Download Oracle Database XE on Linux (EL, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Asianux)
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 Download Oracle Management Pack For Linux
 Download Oracle Clusterware
 Download Oracle Authentication Services for Linux
 Download Oracle Linux Test Kits
 Download Linux Drivers for Automatic Storage Management
 Download Oracle Cluster File System Release 2 (OCFS2) (Data Sheet)



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Oct 15, 2008
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