[sllug-members]: Oracle's Unbreakable Linux

[Robert Graziani]

According to this page on Distro Watch <http://distrowatch.com/>, the Oracle
distribution is based on Red Hat Linux:

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03808#0


On 10/28/06, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Some of you may have heard the announcement earlier this week by
> Oracle that they now provide their own supported distribution of
> GNU/Linux called ``Unbreakable Linux''.
>
> According to yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune, Red Hat's stock fell 25%
> after the Oracle announcement.
>
> eWEEK online has 17 screen shots from an installation of the Oracle
> distribution here:
>
>
> http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-4722-48-550-571062-548493-0-0-0-1
>
> A Web search found much older material on Unbreakable Linux:
>
>         June 5, 2002
>         'Unbreakable Linux' Unleashed
>         http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1276851
>
> plus recent documents:
>
>         Oracle Unbreakable Linux
>         http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/ubl-faq.pdf
>
>         Reactions to Oracle's Unbreakable Linux move
>         http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4525463382.html
>
>         Enterprise Linux: Announcing: Enterprise-Class Support for Linux
>         http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/index.html
>
>         Oracle on Linux
>         http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/oracle_linux.pdf
>
>
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Robert Graziani
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