| August 2023 | | CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future On August 10th, CIQ, Oracle and SUSE announced their intent to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), a collaborative trade association to encourage the development of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by providing open and free Enterprise Linux (EL) source code. The formation of OpenELA arised from Red Hat’s recent changes to RHEL source code availability. In response, CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE are collaborating to deliver source code, tools and systems through OpenELA for the community. OpenELA will provide sources necessary for RHEL compatible downstreams to exist, with initial focus on RHEL versions EL8, EL9 and possibly EL7. The project is committed to ensuring the continued availability of OpenELA sources to the community indefinitely. By welcoming other organizations and community members to join and contribute actively, OpenELA seeks to build a robust, community-driven standard that ensures impartiality and equilibrium in the EL ecosystem. To get involved with OpenELA, please visit www.OpenELA.org/join. For more information, view the press releases from the three founding companies: |
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Highlights In this monthly edition we bring to you the latest announcements on Oracle Linux, Oracle Virtualization, Oracle Cloud Native Environment, and Oracle Verrazzano Enterprise Container Planform. |
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Oracle Linux completes new Common Criteria certifications Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux KVM recently received Common Criteria (CC) certifications that enable them to be included on the NIAP Product Compliant List (PCL), a requirement for IT products sold to the United States Department of Defense. US Federal customers who select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can now opt for a NIAP CC-certified operating system that also includes FIPS-140 validated cryptographic modules. Find out how these certifications enable Oracle Linux to deliver more security features and improve the speed and stability of operations on-premises and in the cloud. |
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KubeVirt, Rook and Oracle Linux 9 support in the latest release of Oracle Cloud Native Environment The Oracle Linux team is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Cloud Native Environment Release 1.7, the scalable and highly available Kubernetes distribution that you can use to deploy your containerized applications across public clouds and on-premises. This release includes Kubernetes 1.26, support for the latest Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9 releases, Rook Storage Orchestrator for Ceph, and KubeVirt integration. If you are running Kubernetes clusters across public clouds and on-premises, the enhanced cluster management features–including the ability to have a consistent view across all environments–can make it much easier for you to manage your workloads. Learn more about the new features and enhancements included in Oracle Cloud Native Environment 1.7. |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Is This Open Source? Oracle’s Chief Architect, Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance & Alliances, Jim Wright, recently spoke on a keynote panel at the Software Freedom Conservancy’s first annual FOSSY conference. View his slides from the conference discussing IBM’s recent changes to Red Hat Enterprise mentioned in this announcement. |
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What are Customers Saying | IT Convergence modernizes hosted cloud services with Oracle Linux By moving their entire hosted cloud services environment to Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, IT Convergence automates and drastically improves deployment times, uptime and SLAs for customers while reducing support costs. Find out how IT Convergence achieved this while switching from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Linux without any reboot or disruption to their servers. | Upcoming Events | Join our Linux and Virtualization Team at Oracle CloudWorld 2023 Join us at Oracle CloudWorld 2023, where we’ll help you unpack all the recent changes in the Linux world, update you on the latest innovations from our team, and help you enhance your Linux learning. The Oracle Linux and Virtualization team has prepared several sessions (live and digital) to keep your Linux and Verrazzano knowledge and skills sharp. |
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A better way to manage infrastructure and automate IT tasks In this session, we'll explore how a single Oracle support subscription can help businesses unlock software solutions and cloud services that help customers increase business value and manage mission-critical workloads across on-premises and multicloud infrastructures. | View On Demand |
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