Oracle offered free Oracle Enterprise Linux updates even as early as 2009. However, Oracle did not wirely promote the service.
https://blogs.oracle.com/sergio/entry/new_oracle_public_yum_server_1 --Chi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ron Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > William, > > Oracle changed the Oracle Linux support structure in March this year. Quoting > the Senior VP of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, "The nice thing is, if > you want a complete up to date system without > support, use this, if you then need support, get a support subscription. > Simple, convenient, effective." > > https://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/lots_of_goodies > > > All you need is point yum config to the Oracle Public YUM > @ http://public-yum.oracle.com/ > > -Ron > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Hay <[email protected]> > To: Rayson Ho <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:20 AM > Subject: Re: [gridengine users] Tight SGE-SSH Integration > > On 24 May 2012 15:20, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM, William Hay <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I assume you are referring to your cgroups stuff here. Some of us are >>> still using Linux versions without cgroups >>> (like Scientific Linux 5). >> >> William, yes and no... I was mainly referring to cgroups integration's >> ability to handle process tagging, but we also have something else >> that we are adding in GE 2011.11u2 if most of our users are still >> using very old kernels - note that the first cgroups capable kernel >> came out in May 2008. >> >> BTW, our ssh HOWTO was updated yesterday to reflect the cgroups >> integration's ability to use a stock sshd for tight job control: >> >> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/howto/qrsh_qlogin_ssh.html >> >> >> For those who are still using RHEL 5, CentOS 5, Oracle Linux 5, or >> Scientific Linux 5 - ie. all the common RHEL based Linux >> Distributions, a kernel upgrade is needed to use cgroups. It may sound >> like a lot of work, but Oracle has already created a yum installable >> package for the all of the RHEL based distributions. Installing >> Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is as simple as upgrading a > I'd thought of that in the past but was wondering how easy it would be to > get patches etc for it without an Unbreakable Linux sub. My impression was > that > Oracle were like RedHat in this respect. You can get the code but they don't > go out of their way to make it easy to do so without paying them... > > William > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
