THE ISOS ARE UP!
https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html
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ORACLE LINUX 9
THE ISOS ARE UP!
https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html
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Also,
UEK7 REPOS ARE UP!
(unbreakable enterprise kernel 7 based on lts kernel 5.15)
Waiting on the official announcement now.
>or*cle Linux
Ahh yes blend of yet another mix of gnu tools and firewall tools and systemd shit
What does this have over RHEL?
lawyers
#1 is no subscription required
It depends what you want from the kernel, but the uek could be considered more stable based on how it's updated compared to the redhat kernel (which is also available).
I'd rather keep the Red Hat kernel ABI and don't really care about having to resubscribe once a year. Does Oracle have any benefits beyond that?
I don't do anything special with it, but you could look at the OL8 repositories and see if there's anything interesting like their virtualization or database stuff.
https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-8.html
I like that they have their own EPEL repostitory.
That RHEL developer subscription is certainly tempting. I ran into a small issue and almost cracked and switched over.
An XMPP client package would be nice, since it's the only thing I currently have to use a flatpak for on RHEL.
Which one? Poezio is in the epel.
Thanks, I'll give it a go.
uhhh... why do i get the feeling I can't do stuff like video calls on this thing?
Which flatpak do you need?
Pidgin is also available.
>resubscribe once a year
what? Thought you only have to register your installation once.
who?
Did a mod miss this thread? Where's the sticky?
There's no sticky because no one cares about Oracle.
It's about time you left that withering dinosaur of a company.
At least IBM is maintaining their stock price
>linux thread gets stickied
Jay would throw a fricking shitfit if that happened
I like how their logo is poorly designed so it looks like this on dark background
sus
Why would I want this?
I consider it the best RHEL clone with Almalinux being a close 2nd.
Very quick minimal install guide (I think this has everything):
Select minimal installation (for the boot iso source you need http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/baseos/latest/x86_64)
Set up a root account. Reboot
Login, add a user and basic desktop:
adduser -G wheel -m <username>
passwd <username>
dnf install gnome-shell gnome-terminal gnome-tweaks nautilus firefox bash-completion
systemctl set-default graphical.target
reboot
>add a user
>adduser -G wheel -m <username>
>passwd <username>
I installed it on my laptop now and there is an option for user creation in the installer, so these aren't necessary. The option wasn't showing in a virtual machine. Also you might want to add NetworkManager-wifi to the package list if you need wifi.
Everything's working great. The OL9 repos are still slow right now, but that's usually not case. Normally I'm downloading everything at full bandwidth.