eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux

From the boot screen on the install media, Oracle starts off an Enterprise in lieu of Red Hat Enterprise that continues though the distribution.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Unbreakable Penguin

Say hello to Linuxs new little friend.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – A Familiar Setup Screen

Oracle may not be the first or even second organization to clone RHEL for redistribution, but Oracles commissioned some pretty new art.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Personal Desktop?

This is a straight clone of the installation type page in RHEL, but we wonder if any desktop deployments are on Oracles radar.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Firewall and SElinux

Again, this page should be familiar to the Fedora and RHEL users out there.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Oracle.com Linux

Itll be interesting to see how Oracle fares as a source of Linux know-how.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Unbreakable Linux Network

Oracles Linux is free to download, but updates will apparently cost you.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – OTM Linux Technology Center

Will Oracle vie with Red Hat to develop new directions for the platform, and how well might those efforts integrate with Red Hats upstream work?

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Splash Screen

Back to the generic Enterprise Linux moniker.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Firstboot

More of the same.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – License Agreement

Oracles license agreement carries the same trademark provisions as does Red Hats RHEL agreement.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Login Screen

Our armored pal pops up again.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Oracle Linux GNOME splash screen

Oracle Linux means another enterprise win for the GNOME desktop.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Unbreakable Linux Network

Same as the Red Hat Network alerter, with a little unbreakability thrown into the name for good measure.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Oracle Linux up2date registration

We downloaded the distro freely, but well have to see about obtaining a CSI.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Oracle Linux Subscribe

If Oracle maintains a no free updates stance, well probably stick with CentOS for much of our eWEEK Labs testing.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Oracles New Linux – Oracle Linux vs. RHN

It will be interesting to see how well Oracle with compete with Red Hats rather nice RHN online service.