Oracle has released the release of Oracle's industrial Linux distribution 7.4, which is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 package. For download without restrictions, but after the free registration, the installation iso-image, the size of 4.7 GB, prepared for the architecture x86_64 is distributed. For Oracle Linux, unlimited and free access to the yum repository with binary package updates with errata and security issues is also open.


In addition to the kernel package from RHEL, Oracle's Linux kernel comes with the release of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 4 (UEKR4U4) kernel update, which is offered by default. The source code for the kernel, including the breakdown of individual patches, is available in the public Oracle Git repository. The kernel is positioned as an alternative to a basic package with a kernel supplied in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and provides a number of advanced features such as DTrace integration and improved support for Btrfs. In addition to the kernel, the functionality of Oracle Linux 7.4 is similar to RHEL 7.4.
Among the new features of Oracle Linux 7.4 (almost all of the listed changes are specific for RHEL 7.4):

The components for downloading in the UEFI Secure Boot mode are signed with their own Oracle certificate. Updated the contents of the shim-signed package;
In yum, the payload_gpgcheck option is added, which allows you to check the integrity of the contents of the payload section in packages with a digital signature;
Added support for NBDE (Network Bound Disk Encryption), which allows you to encrypt the contents of root partitions on hard disks without having to enter the password manually during the boot process;
Added support for USB Guard, allowing users to control access to USB-devices to block possible data leaks. It supports the creation of white and black lists of USB devices;
Continued support and upgrading of the Btrfs file system, which, despite being outdated in RHEL, continues to be positioned as one of the main options in the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 kernel;
Added full support for user name spaces, allowing to use a separate identifier table in the container that does not intersect with the host system (for example, root of the container will not have
Elevated rights in the host system);
Improved support for the Spacewalk platform for managing the infrastructure of Linux servers, simplified installation and provided the possibility of registering the system on a Spacewalk server without first installing the client software;
Added packages http-parser and libfastjson for high-performance parsing of HTTP requests and data in JSON format;
The GNOME desktop has been updated to release 3.22.3.


Issue Year: 2017
Version: 7.4
Developer: Oracle
Architecture: amd64
Tabletka: not required
Language: Multilingual (Russian is present)


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