Oracle has updated the kernel of its Linux distribution to take advantage of the latest Linux advances, the company announced Tuesday. It also previewed a number of new features, including a module ...

Introduced in 2007, the CIFSwitch Linux kernel bug allows users to modify CIFS key description fields and gain root ...

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has announced the release of the vendor's own Linux kernel, slamming its existing Linux partner Red Hat for being too slow to update the version traditionally used ...

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux also offers improved memory and resource management capabilities, Oracle said Tuesday, and the software is now optimized to be deployed as ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems – and now owned by Oracle – due to licensing issues. As ...

Oracle on Tuesday touted at the LinuxWorld conference that its Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel, the software that forms the basis of Linux distributions. The ...

Support for Oracle database clustering and IBM’s Cell processor are among the new enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel. Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the release of ...