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Oracle have a sales pitch - I've been on the end of Oracle's - that is "we'll sell it for less, we don't care, name a price we just want to hurt Red Hat." OEL

Oracle have a sales pitch - I've been on the end of Oracle's - that is "we'll sell it for less, we don't care, name a price we just want to hurt Red Hat." OEL is just rebuilt RHEL.

rurban 3y ago
With dTrace and kernel live patching added
- inemesitaffia 3y ago
  Are these features available out of the box or exclusive to Oracle?
  - rurban 3y ago
    dTrace is Oracle exclusive, as no one else bothered. Ubuntu has live kernel patching also, but with a different technology. And it's called different.
    - the_why_of_y 3y ago
      Ubuntu ships the live patching that was developed by SUSE and Red Hat. After Oracle acquired the company that developed ksplice and took the technology private, SUSE started to develop kGraft[1] and Red Hat started to develop kpatch[2], and these were eventually merged and upstreamed[3] into Linux. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/596854/ https://lwn.net/Articles/596854/ [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/597407/ https://lwn.net/Articles/597407/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/619390/ https://lwn.net/Articles/619390/