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