As part of our month of kernel development coverage, Oracle has kindly allowed LDN to highlight some articles on their Oracle Technology Network site. This article is a good look inside what Oracle's doing for the kernel these days. In future months, Oracle will be contributing new content to LDN, so keep an eye out! -BKP
"Oracle's commitment to Linux began with the release of the first commercial database for Linux. Today, Oracle's Linux engineering team also develops and donates key Linux kernel technology. "Oracle's development work for the Linux kernel represents vital contributions to the open source community, which benefit anyone using Linux," says Andrew Morton, a Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer who works for Google in Mountain View, California.
"The kernel provides a set of services and APIs on top of the hardware for applications to use. These include device drivers for the hardware itself, memory management, process management, IPC [interprocess communication], security, file systems, networking, and other tools," says Chris Mason, a developer on the Oracle Linux kernel team..." [Read more...]
