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Oracle Brings Real-Time Kernel Patching To Oracle Enterprise Linux

Posted by timothy on from the any-old-time-you-want dept.

prisoninmate writes: Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 4 is an important engineering effort and introduces performance improvements and enhancements for some of the most essential components, including CPU schedulers and Automatic NUMA Balancing, along with powerful new features, such as real-time kernel patching, which is possible thanks to the Ksplice open-source extension of the Linux kernel 4 branch, which lets users to apply patches to the running kernel without the need to reboot the system, thus improving security and simplify the management of cloud infrastructures.

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  1. Re:Returning the favour by armanox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do they need to donate? It's just the GPL that causes issues. FreeBSD and OpenIndiana ship ZFS just fine.

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.