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Oracle released the first commercial database on Linux in 1998. Today, only Oracle provides support for the complete stack—enterprise applications, middleware, database, and the operating system.

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Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support
The Oracle Unbreakable Linux program provides industry-leading global support for Linux. Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers also have access to Oracle Management Pack For Linux and Oracle Clusterware at no charge.
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"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
Oracle Clusterware for Oracle Unbreakable Linux: Now Free for Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support Customers
Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels now can download and deploy Oracle Clusterware at no additional license fee or support cost.
posted Mar 27, 2008
Filtering and Grouping: A Comparison of SQL, Linux Scripting, and Ruby
Learn some of the transferable concepts common to Oracle SQL, Linux commands, and scripting to address problems that involve data sets that need to be grouped, sorted, and filtered.
posted Jan 18, 2008

Installation Guides
Note: not supported unless otherwise indicated!
Oracle Database 11g on x86; generic (Oracle - supported)
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 10g Rel 2 on Ubuntu (Breezy Badger and Dapper Drake) (Howard Rogers)
Oracle Database XE on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (Canonical)
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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

Popular Technical Articles
Basic Linux Shell Scripting for Oracle DBAs
Guide to Linux File Command Mastery
Convert a Single Instance Database to Oracle RAC 10g on Linux
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 Download Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
Release Notes: OEL 5, OEL 4.5
 Download Oracle Database XE on Linux (EL, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Asianux)
 Download Oracle Database 11g on Linux
 Download Oracle VM
 Download Oracle Management Pack For Linux
 Download Oracle Clusterware
 Download Oracle Authentication Services for Linux
 Download Oracle Linux Test Kits
 Download Linux Drivers for Automatic Storage Management
 Download Oracle Cluster File System Release 2 (OCFS2) (Data Sheet)

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