| Oracle Linux: 2024 year in review | | | Reflecting on 2024's accomplishments, Oracle Linux achieved significant milestones, innovative developments, and strong synergy with customers, partners, and the open source community.
This blog provides a recap of the highlights that made 2024 a memorable year. |
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| Product Highlights | Updated analyst paper: Why KVM is winning over VMware vSphere
The choice of a virtualization platform directly impacts performance, scalability, security, and costs. Oracle Linux KVM outpaces VMware vSphere with superior performance, scalability, and hardware resource utilization. As an open source solution, it virtually eliminates licensing fees and reduces TCO with features like Ksplice for live updates, hard partitioning for efficient resource allocation, and simplified support pricing. Oracle Linux KVM further stands out with enhanced cloud migration capabilities, security tools, and the ability to accelerate application deployment, making it a cost-effective and flexible choice for modern enterprises.
This analyst paper explores the factors driving KVM's rapid growth, focusing on where KVM holds an advantage and how Oracle Linux KVM can offer you a compelling alternative to VMware. |
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| Partners Solutions | Optimize designs with COMSOL Multiphysics
Engineers and scientists across industries use COMSOL Multiphysics for powerful simulation capabilities. This platform enables fully coupled multiphysics and single-physics modeling, from geometry definition to results evaluation. It can help you streamline your workflow and achieve accurate predictions for real-world designs, devices, and processes.
Comsol Multiphysics 6.3 is certified on Oracle Linux 8.10 and Oracle Linux 9.4.
Gain insights into your business intelligence using MicroStrategy
The MicroStrategy platform is a business intelligence platform that offers a complete set of tools for the creation, deployment, support, and maintenance of business intelligence applications.
It is supported on Oracle Linux 8 and 9. |
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| Developers Corner | Creating and accessing Linux virtual machines using Vagrant with Oracle VirtualBox
Using Vagrant with Oracle VirtualBox simplifies the creation of local virtual machines. Unlike manual setup, which requires downloading and configuring ISO files, Vagrant automates the process, saving you time and effort. With just a few commands, you can deploy environments featuring different operating systems and versions in minutes.
In this blog, you will learn about creating and accessing multiple Linux virtual machines using Vagrant with Oracle VirtualBox. With this powerful combination, you can boost productivity and streamline your workflow.
Diving deeper with free DTrace training
DTrace is a powerful Linux tracing tool designed for real-time troubleshooting of system-wide issues. It allows administrators to analyze the behavior of user applications and the operating system in detail, offering insights into system functionality, pinpointing performance bottlenecks, and identifying the root causes of unusual behavior.
The history and main features of DTrace are detailed in the DTrace Learning Track video. For an introduction watch DTrace Training Module 1 - Getting Started. To explore practical implementation, including DTrace variables, functions, and aggregations, refer to DTrace Module 2 - Going Further, which provides in-depth explanations and demonstrations.
The blog has additional details.
Introducing Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics
At Oracle, we’re always refining how we debug and resolve issues. When existing tools fall short, we create custom solutions to process and analyze data in new ways. Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) is a project whose aim is to consolidate these tools into one repository, benefiting our team and the broader community. OLED does not intend to replace other community projects, it's a home for projects that don't fit easily under existing projects.
In this blog, we’ll explore oled-tools and how they can help you.
scripts - A tool to run various useful OLED diagnostic scripts
The OLED repository includes several diagnostic scripts, all managed through the scripts tool. This tool lets you list, run, enable, and disable scripts with ease. While some scripts are designed to run at system startup, others can be executed as needed. Most scripts are written for dtrace(8), but the framework supports any script type, provided the interpreter is correctly specified in the script header (e.g., #!).
For installation instructions, please refer to this blog post.
For additional details on how to use scripts read this blog. |
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| Events and Webinars | Oracle CloudWorld Tour 2025
Join us at a city near you to connect with partners and peers, and get inspired by leaders from Oracle and local innovative companies. CloudWorld Tour is a complimentary one-day event that brings our world to your world.
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