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Join the "Installfest" Community
Need to install Oracle Database on some species of Linux, or have your own recipe for doing so? Dive into this wiki.
posted Jun 11, 2008
Presentation: The Xen of Virtualization on Linux
Oracle's Dan Magenheimer delivered this preso (PDF) at a meeting of the Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE) group in May 2008.
posted May 15, 2008
"Open Voices" Podcast: Edward Screven of Oracle (from The Linux Foundation)
This podcast features Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect of Oracle, who sits down with Jim Zemlin for a candid discussion on Oracle’s use of Linux, as well as his thoughts on a singular Linux distribution, cloud computing and much more.
posted May 14, 2008
Hands-on Tutorial: Install and Configure OEL5 with Oracle Database 11 g as a Paravirtualized VM on an Oracle VM Server
Explore this hands-on, step-by-step tutorial from the Oracle By Example series.
posted May 14, 2008
Technical White Paper: Using Oracle Clusterware in Non-Oracle Applications
Learn how customers and Oracle partners can now place their own applications under the management and protection of Oracle Clusterware, such that they restart on process failure or failover to another node on node failure.
posted Apr 3, 2008
Download: Oracle Authentication Services for Linux
Oracle Authentication Services for Operating Systems, which provides centralized authentication and account management for Unix and Linux platforms, is now available for download.
posted Apr 2, 2008

Installation Guides
Note: not supported unless otherwise indicated!
Oracle Database 11g on x86; generic (Oracle - supported)
Oracle Database 11g on x86; Enterprise Linux 5 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 11g on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) (Pythian Group)
Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI (Jeff Hunter)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86; generic (Oracle - supported)
Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on x86; RHEL4 and SLES9 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86; RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9 (John Smiley)
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on SLES10 (Novell)
Oracle Database XE on Xubuntu (Todd Trichler)
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Meet the Oracle Linux Kernel Team! (Podcasts)
Chris Mason on kernel development overall
Kurt Hackel on Oracle VM
Chris Mason on Btrfs
Zach Brown on RDS and Asynch I/O
Chuck Lever on NFS and storage management

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