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Oracle's Unbreakable Linux team provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for Linux. Oracle's Unbreakable Support provides the same level of enterprise-class support that Oracle provides for its database product.
Contents 1. Oracle's Unbreakable Linux 2. Oracle Linux 3. Certification and Support Policy for Oracle Products on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM 1. Cases to Consider 1. Linux 2. Windows 2. Product teams responsibility 1. Guidelines for Documentation 3. Linux Team responsibility 4. Oracle Linux and RHEL Parity 5. Schedule 1. Current Releases 2. Beta Releases 3. Release Roadmaps and Schedules 6. Access to SW 1. ULN and Yum access 2. ISO access 7. Testing and Certification 1. Known Bugs 8. Linux Internal Support 9. Oracle Development Environment on Linux 1. Building your product on Oracle Linux 4 and Oracle Linux 5 2. Best practice use of compat packages 10. Other Linux Distributions 1. Asianux 2. SLES 1. SLES roadmap 11. Resources 1. Links 2. Contacts 3. Meetings 4. Blog

Oracle's Unbreakable Linux

Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with world-class, award winning, global support for Linux while significantly reducing IT infrastructure costs. In response to demands for true enterprise-quality Linux support Oracle offers Linux operating system support. Oracle delivers high quality, comprehensive, and integrated support solutions to ensure enterprise success with the Linux operating system. Oracle's Unbreakable Linux is a support initiative, not a distribution; Oracle Linux is identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of customer-critical patches. Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support covers systems running binaries compiled by either Red Hat or Oracle.

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Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux is identical to the corresponding Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) version, but with the trademarks and logos removed. Oracle provides free downloads of Oracle Linux ISOs. Customers who purchase Linux support from Oracle have access to Oracle Linux ISOs, but do not have access to the Red Hat built ISOs. ISOs are built for x86 and x86-64 architectures.

Certification and Support Policy for Oracle Products on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
If you feel that you cannot implement the following policy please contact Wim Coekaerts ( wim.coekaerts@oracle.com ) or Edward Screven ( edward.screven@oracle.com ). Every product running on Linux released by Oracle must be listed as certified and supported on Oracle Linux and on virtualized Oracle Linux running on Oracle VM. This should be reflected in all the external and internal facing documentation and statements, such as data sheets, websites, slides, My Oracle Support (formerly Metalink) notes etc. It applies to all future and existing products. In addition, upcoming Oracle products running on Windows will have to be listed as certified and supported when running in virtualized Windows environments on Oracle VM.

Cases to Consider
Linux RHEL vs. Oracle Linux: If an Oracle product has ever been certified against and supported on any version of RHEL, it should also be automatically certified and supported on the corresponding version of Oracle Linux (e.g., RHEL4->Oracle Linux 4, RHEL5->Oracle Linux 5). Note that there is no expectation of product certification carrying over across different releases of Oracle Linux, such as Oracle Linux 4 and Oracle Linux 5. Oracle mandates that all development and QA systems run Oracle Linux, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Non-Virtual vs. Virtual: Furthermore, if a product is supported and certified on Oracle Linux, it shall also be certified and supported in the virtualized installation of the same version of Oracle Linux running on OVM. (e.g. Oracle Linux 4 -> Oracle Linux 4 on OVM, Oracle Linux 5 -> Oracle Linux 5 on OVM) Windows As stated above, every planned Oracle product that will be certified on Windows must also be listed as certified and supported when running on Windows in virtualized environment with OVM.

Product teams responsibility

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You must insure that all the statements and documentation for your products are updated to reflect the Oracle Linux/OVM certification status. No additional testing is required from your teams. The certifications as stated above carry over automatically. A product team is obviously welcome to perform additional testing on these configurations, however this should not cause delays in certification at product release time. Guidelines for Documentation Oracle Linux is the Linux OS of choice for Oracle Products. We would like to make sure Oracle Linux gets the right coverage on all our internal and external documentation, as well as websites. Please let's continue monitoring the documentation of all our products avoiding situations where Linux OSs such as RHEL and/or SLES are the only mentioned and always make sure Oracle Linux is part of the list of Linux OSs certified with our products. If you are working (with partners) on any collaterals, benchmarks, presentations, white papers or initiatives that includes RHEL, please make sure you also add Oracle Linux or better, make sure you start the project on Oracle Linux. Any documentation on RHEL only , will be stopped or you will be asked to modify it to include Oracle Linux.

Linux Team responsibility

The Linux Engineering Team is responsible for assuring that this automatic certification is accomplished and maintained seamlessly without requiring any additional testing by the product teams. Any issues related to Oracle Linux and Oracle VM are to be resolved by the Linux Engineering team rather than by the product teams. If you have any questions about the above policy please contact Michele Resta ( michele.resta@oracle.com ).

Oracle Linux and RHEL Parity

For released products supported on RHEL4 or RHEL5, x86 and x86_64 Oracle Linux support is implied. No certification is necessary, but you are required to update existing documentation and websites to add Oracle Linux information. For unreleased products, Oracle Linux must be the primary development platform and the first Linux OS that is certified. It is up to each product line to decide which release of Oracle Linux should be certified. Oracle Linux releases are baseline certifications: in other words, you may select to only certify on Oracle Linux releases after a particular update level (e.g. Oracle Linux 4 update 3 and higher). Products will not require re-certification on subsequent update releases. Please do not request feature enhancements for Oracle Linux, as they are not possible. Only customer-critical bug fixes are allowed in Oracle Linux.

Schedule
Current Releases

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Oracle Linux 6: identical to Red Hat Linux 6 server and Advanced Platform Oracle Linux 6.4 for x86, x86_64: Released Mar 6, 2013 Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.17.1.el6uek] Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-358.el6] Installed by default By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel for the specific architecture (i386 or x86_64) are installed and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. Oracle Linux 6.4 Release Note: https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U4-en.html Oracle Linux 6.3 for x86, x86_64: Released June 27, 2012 Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek] Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-279.el6] Installed by default Oracle Linux 6.3 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default. Oracle Linux 6.3 Release Note: https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek] Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-279.el6] Installed by default Oracle Linux 6.3 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default. Oracle Linux 6.3 Release Note: https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html * Oracle Linux 6.2 for x86, x86_64: Released December 14, 2011 Oracle Linux 6.2 ships with following two sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kerneluek-2.6.32-300.3.1.el6uek] Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-220.el6] Installed by default Oracle Linux 6.2 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot

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with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default. Oracle Linux 6.2 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U2-en.html Oracle Linux 6.1 for x86, x86_64: Released May 29, 2011 Oracle Linux 6.1 ships with following two sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kerneluek-2.6.32-100.34.1.el6uek] Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6] Installed by default Note: Oracle Linux 6.1 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default Oracle Linux 6.1 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U1-en.html Oracle Linux 6.0 for x86, x86_64: Released February 5, 2011 Oracle Linux 6.0 ships with following two sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [kerneluek-2.6.32-100.28.5.el6]: Only available on x86_64 (64bit) platform and this kernel will be installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.32-71.el6]: This kernel also be installed by default Note: Both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed on the x86_64 (64 bit) platform by default, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default. Find more detail in Oracle Linux 6 release note in below Oracle Linux 6.0 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-GA-en.html Oracle Linux 5: identical to Red Hat Linux 5 Server and Advanced Platform. Oracle Linux 5.9 for x86, x86-64: released Jan 16, 2013 (ULN) Oracle Linux 5.9 ships with following sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise kernel [kerneluek-2.6.39-300.26.1.el5uek: Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.18-348.el5]: Installed by default Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle [kernel-2.6.18-348.0.0.0.1.el5]: This kernel is available on x86 and x86-64, can only be installed manually (see below for details) Note:Oracle Linux 5.9 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. Both Unbreakable Enterprise kernel and Red Hat compatible kernel are installed and the system boots with Unbreakable
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Enterprise kernel by default. If needed /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with Red Hat compatible kernel by default. Oracle Linux 5.9 Release Note: https://oss.oracle.com/ol5/docs/RELEASENOTES-U9-en.html Oracle Linux 5.8 for x86, x86-64: released Feb 29, 2012 (ULN) Oracle Linux 5.8 ships with following sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise kernel [kerneluek-2.6.32-300.10.1.el5uek: Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.18-308.el5]: Installed by default Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle [kernel-2.6.18-308.0.0.0.1.el5]: This kernel is available on x86 and x86-64, can only be installed manually (see below for details) Note:Oracle Linux 5.8 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. Both Unbreakable Enterprise kernel and Red Hat compatible kernel are installed and the system boots with Unbreakable Enterprise kernel by default. If needed /etc/grub.conf can be modifed to make the system boot with Red Hat compatible kernel by default. Oracle Linux 5.8 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/docs/RELEASENOTES-U8-en.html Oracle Linux 5.7 for x86, x86-64: released July 28, 2011 (ULN) Oracle Linux 5.7 ships with following sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise kernel [kerneluek-2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek: Available on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64bit) platform : Installed and booted by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.18-274.el5] : Installed by default Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle [kernel-2.6.18-274.0.0.0.1.el5] : This kernel is available on x86 and x86-64, can only be installed manually Note: Oracle Linux 5.7 includes both a 32 bit and a 64 bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default. Oracle Linux 5.7 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U7-en.html Oracle Linux 5.6 for x86, x86-64: Released January 22,2011 Oracle Linux 5.6 ships with following three sets of kernel packages Unbreakable Enterprise kernel [kernel-uek-2.6.32-100.26.2.el5: Only available on x86_64 (64bit) platform and this kernel will be installed by default Red Hat compatible Kernel [kernel-2.6.18-238.el5] : This kernel will be installed by default Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle [kernel-2.6.18-238.0.0.0.1.el5] : This kernel, available on x86 and x86-64 , can only be installed manually (see below for details) Note: Both Unbreakable Enterprise kernel and Red Hat compatible

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kernel are installed on 64 bit (x86_64) platform and the system boots with Unbreakable Enterprise kernel by default. If needed /etc/grub.conf can be modified to make the system boot with Red Hat compatible kernel by default. This Red Hat compatible Kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle needs to be manually installed. Use following steps to install this kernel 1) mount Oracle Linux 5.6 DVD 2) copy the rpms from <mount_point>/Server/oracle_updated to your system 3) install the required kernel using the rpm command, e.g. # rpm -ihv kernel-2.6.18-238.0.0.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm Oracle Linux 5.6 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U6-en.html Unbreakable Linux Kernel for x86-64: Released September 19, 2010 Oracle Linux 5.5 for x86, x86-64, ia64 : Released April 6, 2010 Oracle Linux 5.5 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/el5/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U5-en.html LSB Certification by The Linux Foundation LSB Certification for Oracle Linux 5.3 : /lsb-cert/productdir.php?info&pcid=254 http://www.linuxfoundation.org

LSB 4.0 Certification for Oracle Linux 5.5 with Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/lsb-cert /productdir.php?info&pcid=293 LSB 4.0 Certification for Oracle Linux 5.6 with Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/lsb-cert /productdir.php?info&pcid=302 LSB 4.0 Certification for Oracle Linux 6.0: /lsb-cert/productdir.php?info&pcid=309 http://www.linuxfoundation.org

Oracle Linux 4: identical to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS/ES. Oracle Linux 4.9 for x86, x86-64, ia64: Released February 23, 2011 Oracle Linux 4.9 Release Note: http://kernel.us.oracle.com/~ksharma /OEL49/RELEASE-NOTES-U9-x86-en.html Note: No ISOs available for Oracle Linux 4.9 and this update is set of erratas over 4.8 and only released on ULN Oracle Linux 4.8 for x86, x86-64, ia64: Released May 26, 2009 Oracle Linux 4.8 Release Note: http://oss.oracle.com/el4/docs /RELEASE-NOTES-U8-en.html RHEL3 is also supported by the Linux Engineering team starting from Update 8. No ISOs are available for RHEL3, support is provided for existing installations only. Oracle provides patches and security erratas.

Beta Releases
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2 Public Yum Server - Beta Software:

http://public-yum.oracle.com/beta/

oss: http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=linux-2.6-unbreakable-beta.git; a=summary

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Release Roadmaps and Schedules

Red Hat Major Release: Oracle Linux release follow weeks after a major Red Hat release, to allow time for bug fixing, testing and certification. Red Hat Quarterly/Semiannual Update: one week after RHEL release Red Hat Security Errata: within hours of Red Hat release Plus: Oracle Linux for Itanium : released for Oracle Linux 4.6 and Oracle Linux 4.7 and Oracle Linux 4.9 (rpms only). With Oracle Linux 4.8 and 5.4 ISOs are also available. Oracle Linux for zSeries and PowerPC: not planned Oracle Lifetime Support Policy: Coverage for Oracle Linux at /support/collateral/elsp-lifetime-069338.pdf Oracle Linux Supported Releases at http://www.oracle.com

http://linux.oracle.com/supported.html http://www.redhat.com

Red Hat Enterprise Errata Support Policy can be found here: /security/updates/errata/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 End Of Life (May 31, 2009) Notice has been posted: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0297.html

Access to SW
ULN and Yum access
Package updates are available on ULN. Users inside the corporate network can register to an internal ULN server by installing the uln-internal-setup package located at http://kernel.us.oracle.com/uln/. The same page contains instructions for Yum users.

ISO access
ISOs are available at http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux ISOs are also available here http://kernel.us.oracle.com/isofs/EnterpriseLinux ISOs for Internal Use for Oracle VM Server here http://kernel.us.oracle.com /isofs/OVM

Testing and Certification

Instruction for Oracle Product certification are here: http://linux.oraclecorp.com /linux.oraclecorp/CertificationOnLinux Oracle product teams have early access to upcoming releases of Oracle Linux. Oracle product teams can be informed of Linux releases via the linux-release mailing list or the Tuesday Linux Engineering meeting (contact michele.resta@oracle.com ) It is Oracle general policy to certify Oracle products only on major releases and not

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updates. Oracle Linux Updates do not require retesting or recertification (e.g. Oracle Linux 4.4 -> 4.5 -> 4.6) Major Oracle Linux releases will need certification (e.g. Oracle Linux 4 -> Oracle Linux 5)

Known Bugs
Red Hat released RHEL4 update 7, kernel 2.6.9-78.EL, which includes a known bug (Red Hat Bugzilla 455525) that causes the Linux kernel to crash at startup of the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent. Bug has been fixed on Oracle Linux 4.7 . For more information please refer to My Oracle Support (Metalink) Note 729543.1 Glibc: please see bug reports: https://bug.oraclecorp.com/pls/bug /webbug_print.show?c_rptno=6790001 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=405781. The bug is about calloc() not returning zeroed memory when the process address space is locked by a call to mlockall. Versions of glibc affected are: RHEL-4.6 and Oracle Linux-4.6: glibc-2.3.4-2.39, all architectures. RHEL-5.1 and Oracle Linux-5.1: glibc-2.5-18, all achitectures. SLES10 SP2: glibc-2.4-31.54 , all architectures This bug has been fixed in RHEL5.2 glibc and Oracle Linux 5.2 (glibc-2.7-54). It is also fixed in RHEL4.7 and Oracle Linux 4.7 (glibc-2.3.4-2.41). We are currently testing a fix from Novell for SLES10. The bug was not present in earlier versions of glibc and it is not present in RHEL3. Please see My Oracle Support (Metalink) Note 732847.1 RHEL only , will be stopped or you will be asked to modify it to include Oracle Linux.

Linux Internal Support

All internal Oracle Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments are supported by the Oracle Linux team. Oracle does not have a support contract with Red Hat, and if you are still using Red Hat support please contact Michele Resta ( michele.resta@oracle.com ) immediately. Please consult http://wiki.us.oracle.com/calpg/bug.us for instructions on filing bugs against Oracle Linux.

Oracle Development Environment on Linux

Oracle Products today should be built on Oracle Linux systems and then ported to other platforms. For general Linux support, please contact the Oracle Linux support team. If you are part of a recent acquisition, and still transitioning your product's development environment to Oracle Linux, the Oracle Linux engineering team provides supports to you regardless of whether your applications were compiled on Oracle Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can file bugs against Oracle Linux on BugDB, for more information please refer to this page: http://wiki.us.oracle.com/calpg/bug.us.

Building your product on Oracle Linux 4 and Oracle Linux 5

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Oracle Linux 4 (and updates): provides glibc 2.3.4 and gcc 3.4 Oracle Linux 5 (and updates): provides glibc 2.5 and gcc-4.1 The above combinations of compilers and libraries will not change during the lifetime of the Oracle Linux 4 and 5 releases. Relinking of your application on a given version of Oracle Linux if the application's object files were built on an older version of Oracle Linux or RHEL is not supported and will not work in general. This is due to incompatibilities between the different versions of many of the libraries. Errors such as missing or duplicate symbols can occur whenever a newer version of a library is used to relink the same object files that were originally compiled using an older one. We therefore strongly discourage such practice. Using dynamically linked libraries can help avoid this problem. Oracle Linux does not provide support for the Intel compiler.

Best practice use of compat packages

Even though Oracle Linux 4 and 5 provide several old components for development use, be advised that support for these is very limited, and will likely be obsoleted. Whenever you generate a new release of your product make sure that you try your best to remove its dependencies on such older packages. Oracle Linux 4 provides the following compatibility packages: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3 compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3 compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3 compat-glibc-2.3.2-95.30 compat-glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.30 compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2 compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2 Oracle Linux 5 provides the following compatibility packages: compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4 compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4 compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4 compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26 compat-glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.26 compat-libf2c-34-3.4.6-4 compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138 compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

Other Linux Distributions

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information with all Oracle teams as part of the regular communication. No other Linux distributions are supported (few exceptions, Oracle Database on Montavista). Support on other distributions should be discussed with the Linux Engineering Team to be aligned with the corporate strategy. Please contact michele.resta@oracle.com for any questions related to this.

Asianux
Current Release is Asianux 3.0. Home page for the Asiainux Consortium is Road map for support and end of life policy is http://www.asianux.com http://www.asianux.com/roadMap.do

SLES
SLES roadmap SLES11 SP2 - Current Level SLES11 SP3 - planned for Q2'13 For Oracle's internal use: SLES11 SP2 Download: SLES10 SP4 Download: ftp://partners.novell.com/sles/SLES-11-SP2-GM/ ftp://partners.novell.com/sles/SLES-10-SP4-GM/

(user:partnernet , password:code.10) Note: Service packs are complete release Access to SLES Software * Information below has been requested by different Oracle Product Teams to get access to SLES sw. Here is the formal process to register to get SLES download (& patches). 1 - Log on to : http://www.novell.com/partners/ 2- Click on Login 3- Create Novell Customer Center account ( https://secure-www.novell.com /selfreg/jsp/createAccount.jsp) 4- Send e-mail with above Novell Login ID to: Loni Domina ( ldomina@novell.com ) to link your Novell account to main Oracle account. Once step #4 is complete, you are eligible to download SLES patches. If you do register, please send me an email to notify the Novell Team . michele.resta@oracle.com to can

Resources
Links
ULN, Unbreakable Linux Network: http://linux.oracle.com http://www.oracle.com/linux

External website for Unbreakable Linux Support:

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Linux Technology Center on OTN: http://otn.oracle.com/linux Oracle Software Delivery Cloud: http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux Oracle Validated Configuration: linux.oracle.com/validated-certifications Oracle Linux/Oracle VM Hardware Certification List (HCL): linux.oracle.com/hardware-certifications sales kit: http://linux.oraclecorp.com external wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Unbreakable+Linux Common Criteria EAL4+ Evaluated Configuration Guide for Oracle Linux 4 U4 and U5: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/seceval/pdf/OELCAPP-EAL4-Configuration-Guide-v1.3.pdf Archive of Oracle Linux patch announcements: http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail /el-errata/

Contacts
ULN Contacts: keshav.sharma@oracle.com Bugs, Support, and Technical questions: linux_us@oracle.com Global Desktop Mailing List for the Linux OBI: GDS_LinuxNews_ww@oracle.com General chatter: helplinux_us@oracle.com Partners and Alliances: michele.resta@oracle.com Hardware Certification (HCL/Validated Configuration) on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM: mresta_org@oracle.com ISVs certification on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM: mresta_org@oracle.com Subscribe to the Oracle Linux Errata mailing list: /listinfo/el-errata http://oss.oracle.com/mailman

Meetings
Linux Engineering Meeting: Information on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM roadmaps and projects are usually shared as part of internal meetings. Please, contact michele.resta@oracle.com to be added to the mailing list. The meeting normally addresses the following topics: Unbreakable Linux Support and Oracle Linux updates Oracle VM Technical issues, bugs, escalations on Oracle Linux, RHEL (contact greg.marsden@oracle.com ) SLES and Asianux roadmap Marketing updates on UL and Oracle VM

Blog
Follow our new Oracle Linux blog to hear latest updates, upcoming events, and latest technologies from product managers and technical experts http://blogs.oracle.com /linux/

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