Oracle Linux 7 released

Oracle Linux 7 was released this last week 2nd of RHEL directives to make a GA release, CentOS being the first and Scientific Linux still to come, currently in alpha.

No real surprises here, now comes with the UEK, 3.8.13-35.3.1.el7uek.x86_64, kernel as default. If you what to test it out and take it for a spin it’s pretty easy to using the my lunchbox set of packer templates files which have been updated to support OEL 7.0.

Features include:

• Btrfs
• XFS
• Linux Containers (LXC)
• DTrace
• Ksplice for zero-downtime kernel security updates and bug fixes
• Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 3
• systemd, a new service and system manager
• Grub2 as the default boot loader with support for additional firmware types, such as UEFI
• Support for in-place upgrades from OEL 6.5 to OEL 7

You will need to download the ISO via the Oracle Edelivery site