Re: RHEL 8

It is likely they will only support their products on OL8 when the first UEK release for it happens, some time next year. At that point they will certify the products against this kernel, then "paper certify" the products against the Red Hat Compatibility Kernel, and therefore the RHEL distro.

Cheers

Tim...

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 8:56 PM Tanel Poder <tanel_at_tanelpoder.com> wrote:

> Also I think RHEL 8.0 itself is a short-lived release, the recently
> released 8.1 has longer support:
>
>
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Maintenance_Support_2_Phase
>
> Perhaps Oracle is going to certify the DB on RHEL 8.1 or later... or will
> use this to encourage people to move to Oracle 20c or something...
>
> Tanel
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 4:09 AM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's correct.
>>
>> I'm a *little* surprised that there is no such certification introduced
>> for 19.4 since 19c is supposed to be a LTS release and many people will
>> currently be running on RH6 which it also doesn't support. I do appreciate
>> that the timing is difficult for Oracle since RH8 was only released
>> *after* 19c and the historic nature of certification is that database
>> releases were only certified against commercially available operating
>> systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 1:43 AM Gus Spier <gus.spier_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Unless I've missed something, at present, there is no version of Oracle
>>> RDBMS that is certified with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 8. Does
>>> anybody have different information?
>>>
>>> Regards and Happy Christmas
>>>
>>> Gus
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Niall Litchfield
>> Oracle DBA
>> http://www.orawin.info
>>
>

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