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Security Alert CVE-2015-4852 was released on November 10th, 2015.

Security Alert CVE-2015-4852 was released on November 10th, 2015. This vulnerability, which involves the Apache Commons and Oracle WebLogic Server, has received a CVSS Base Score of 7.5. Due to the severity of CVE-2015-4852, Oracle strongly recommends applying mitigation steps and patches as soon as available. The Security Alert Advisory for CVE-2015-4852 is the starting point for relevant information. This Security Alert provides mitigation recommendations to be implemented while awaiting the release of Oracle WebLogic Server patches. It includes links to other important documents that provide a list of affected products and the patch availability information. It is essential to review the Security Alert supporting documentation referenced in the Advisory before applying patches or mitigation instructions. The Security Alert Advisory is available at the following location: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2015-4852-2763333.html Mitigation instructions are available at: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2076338.1 WebLogic Server Patch Availability information will be updated at: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2075927.1 All Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts are available on the Oracle Technology Network at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html Sincerely, Customer Support of Oracle Corporation Copyright © 2015, Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Contact Us | Legal Notices and Terms of Use | Privacy Statement

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FBI #Security: Navy Engineer Sentenced for Attempted Espionage

The dead drop area in a Virginia park that was used by Navy civilian engineer Mostafa Ahmed Awwad to pass sensitive information on the USS Gerald R. Ford, a new aircraft carrier currently under construction.

Navy Engineer Sentenced for Attempted Espionage
Passed Information on Latest Aircraft Carrier to Undercover Agent

11/05/15

In the fall of 2014, civilian engineer Mostafa Ahmed Awwad provided schematics of the U.S. Navy’s newest nuclear aircraft carrier—the USS Gerald R. Ford—to an individual he thought was an Egyptian intelligence officer. At the time, Awwad was an employee of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and had access to naval nuclear propulsion information.

His actions could have potentially compromised the safety of some 4,000 American sailors who will be serving on the USS Gerald R. Ford after it joins the fleet of Navy vessels sometime next year—and the security of our nation in general. Fortunately, Awwad’s Egyptian contact turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. And last month, Awwad was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to attempted espionage.

After joint investigative efforts between the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), an undercover Bureau agent reached out to Awwad by telephone in September 2014 and, speaking Arabic, asked to meet with him. Without asking any questions, Awwad agreed.

	This surveillance photo shows Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, left, meeting with an FBI undercover agent he believed was an Egyptian intelligence officer.

The pair met the next day in a park in nearby Hampton, Virginia. During the meeting, which was audio and video recorded, our agent identified himself as being a representative of the Egyptian government. Awwad told our agent that he wanted to use his position at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard to obtain military technology for use by Egypt, including the designs of the USS Gerald R. Ford. The two discussed how they would remain in future contact—through coded e-mail communications and dead drops in a concealed location in the park.

In October 2014, at Awwad’s request, the two men met in a hotel room in Norfolk. During that meeting, which was also recorded, Awwad gave the undercover agent electronic copies of schematic drawings of the USSGerald R. Ford, which clearly contained numerous markings warning against disseminating the information publicly. Awwad said he planned to obtain additional information concerning the tools and the technology necessary to build the carrier and also pointed out on the schematics vulnerable areas where a strike could cause an explosion significant enough to sink the carrier.

During this same meeting, Awwad described for the agent his plans to circumvent Navy computer security by installing software on his restricted computer that would enable him to copy documents without triggering a security alert. He also asked for money to buy a pinhole camera, which he intended to use throughout the shipyard to take pictures of restricted material.

And finally, Awwad told the agent that going forward, the two would communicate primarily through e-mail. The engineer, admittedly fearful of being caught by the FBI, instructed the agent to create 24 fake e-mail accounts that should be used only once and then deleted. He also asked for an escape plan in the event his activities were detected by the FBI.

Over the next month or so, Awwad and the undercover agent e-mailed numerous times and met again in a hotel. Awwad was also recorded servicing the dead drop location in the Hampton park, picking up $3,000 left by the agent at Awwad’s request so he could purchase a laptop and dropping off an external hard drive of additional schematic drawings and two photos to be used for producing a fraudulent passport.

All the while, there was no doubt that Awwad understood that the “Egyptian representative” he was dealing with would be passing the stolen information to the Egyptian government.

Why did he do it? Awwad told our undercover agent that he was motivated to use his position to steal nuclear and defense secrets from the U.S. to aid Egypt in building a more robust defense. And at one point, he said he wanted to go to Egypt to meet personally with high-ranking intelligence and military officials to get a better idea on exactly what information they would want him to collect.

But he never got the chance. Awwad was taken into custody on December 5, 2014, following another meeting with our undercover agent.

The USS Gerald R. Ford is still under construction, but when completed, it will be the most advanced aircraft carrier in the world and the first in a new class of carriers. As a result of the joint FBI/NCIS efforts in this case, according to FBI Assistant Director Randall Coleman, “We prevented the loss of billions of dollars in research costs and the exposure of potential vulnerabilities to our newest generation of nuclear aircraft carrier.”

Oracle Delivers New Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-8

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Redwood Shores, Calif.—Nov 4, 2015
Available today, the new Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-8 is the latest in the X5 family of engineered systems. Oracle Exadata integrates hardware and software to deliver the highest performance database deployments at the lowest cost. Each Oracle Exadata X5-8 system offers up to 576 CPU cores, more than 1.3 petabytes of disk storage or 180 terabytes of ultra fast PCIe flash, and up to 24 terabytes of memory.

Oracle Exadata X5-8 is ideal for in-memory databases, large data warehouses, or demanding OLTP workloads. The high compute, storage and memory capacity of the Oracle Exadata X5-8 is designed for large-scale private cloud database initiatives, enabling large numbers of databases with varied workloads to be consolidated onto a single Exadata system, resulting in greatly reduced operational and management costs.

“Oracle Exadata X5-8 is an ideal platform for database cloud deployments as well as in-memory analytics, OLTP and mixed workloads,” said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle. “For the last several years, Oracle Exadata has been the platform of choice for running mission critical Oracle databases at thousands of customers, and X5-8 extends this value proposition.”

Key features of this hardware release include:

New Database Server: X5-8 updates the 8-socket database servers to use the latest and fastest eighteen-core Intel E7-8895 v3 processors, for a total of 144 cores per database server. The extra cores and updated architecture increase performance up to 25 percent.

Double Storage Server Capacity: High Capacity Storage Servers included in X5-8 Oracle Exadata Database Machines use 8TB SAS3 disk drives, doubling storage capacity over the prior X4-8 generation.

Oracle Exadata systems feature unique software capabilities that dramatically accelerate database performance and reduce cost. Oracle Exadata X5-8 ships with the latest Oracle Exadata software release (12.1.2.2.0) that provides the following new capabilities:

• IPv6 support for Ethernet networks
• Simpler management and better security using ExaCLI
• Improved Exadata storage statistics in AWR reports
• Reverse offload improvements
• Robustness and availability improvements

Oracle Exadata X5-8 is the new companion model to Oracle Exadata X5-2 and incorporates the same storage and networking capabilities of Oracle Exadata X5-2. Storage and compute can be elastically configured and expanded one server at a time to provide granular on-demand expansion at a lower cost. Elastic configurations enable customized Oracle Exadata Database Machines, such as Oracle Database In-Memory optimized systems or all-flash OLTP systems. Capacity-on-Demand pricing of the database software and the availability of Oracle VM virtualization enable additional flexibility, security and savings. Additionally, the new Oracle Exadata software supports previous-generation Oracle Exadata hardware systems and also supports both Oracle Database 12c and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 databases.

Oracle Exadata systems provide customers with a cost-effective database consolidation platform delivered within their enterprise or in the Oracle Cloud. The combination of both on-premises and public cloud capabilities provides enterprises with the maximum flexibility in where to develop and run production database workloads all managed through a single pane of glass with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Boise Man Sentenced for Transferring Obscene Material to a Minor Over the Internet

U.S. Attorney’s OfficeNovember 03, 2015

BOISE, ID—Kenton Lloyd Flook, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 84 months in prison followed by seven years of supervised release, for two counts of transfer of obscene materials to a minor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Flook to forfeit computers and related property used in the commission of the offenses. Flook pleaded guilty to the charges on July 30, 2015.

According to the plea agreement, in March of 2014, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Erie, Pennsylvania, and a detective with the Erie, Pennsylvania, Police Department, received information from the mother of a 13-year-old child in Erie that her daughter had engaged in sexually explicit activity with an adult male via the Internet. An investigation of the victim’s iPod revealed multiple sexually explicit images of the victim and an adult male who represented himself as “Kevin Atton.” The investigation also revealed chats between the victim and “Atton” using online chat websites “Omegle” and “KiK,” and live video chats using “Skype.”

Beginning on February 14, 2014, the chats became sexually explicit in nature, and progressed to the commission of live sex acts and exchanges of sexually explicit photos of one another via the Internet. The exchange of sexually explicit photos included sexually explicit photos of the adult male on March 2nd and 3rd, 2014. The victim reported that she told “Atton” that she was 14 years old. “Atton” represented himself as a 21-year-old baseball player and college student at UNLV in Las Vegas, Nevada. The investigation later revealed “Atton” to be Kenton Lloyd Flook, age 44, living in Boise, Idaho.

On July 28, 2014, FBI agents in Idaho served a federal search warrant for Flook’s residence in Boise, where they seized an iPad used in the chats. FBI agents in Las Vegas, Nevada located Flook on that same date while he was on a business trip. During an interview with FBI agents, Flook admitted repeatedly communicating with the victim online, that the conversations were sexual in nature, that he engaged in live sexual acts over the Internet with the victim, and that he had exchanged sexually explicit images with the victim.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Utah, as well as the Erie, Pennsylvania Police Department, and was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visitwww.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visitwww.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”

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Webinar Online: How can you be assured your endpoints and business are protected?

It’s no mystery. Endpoints are a hotbed for security breaches. At the same time, infosec professionals are increasingly frustrated with the shortcomings of widely deployed, signature-based endpoint products... This begs the question, should you throw out your traditional endpoint security solutions and invest in new technology?

For insights into what’s making endpoint security a challenge and what you can do NOW to achieve greater assurance your endpoints – and business – are protected, join Jack Daniel, Marcus Ranum and Manish Patel at 2pm ET, November 18, 2015 for the webcast, “Four Reasons Why Endpoint Security Fails.”

Topics covered will include:

• Detecting risk from hidden endpoints
• Finding compromised endpoints
• Fortifying security weaknesses
• Getting assurance and measuring the effectiveness of your endpoint security program
• Answers to your specific questions during live Q&A

There are a number of reasons why IT security professionals struggle with protecting endpoints. For insights into four of the most common, and ideas for how you can secure smarter and achieve endpoint assurance, join Manish Patel at 2pm ET, November 18, 2015 for, “Four Reasons Why Endpoint Security Fails.”

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Senior Strate

Webinar - Upgrade Aplicaciones Oracle Forms & Reports

En este webcast usted tendrá la oportunidad de conocer los beneficios de esta migración, resolver todas sus dudas y tener total seguridad en migraciones de sistemas completos en pocos días.
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Oracle Data Cloud Launches Validated Demographics Audiences, Offering Age and Gender Targeting with up to Twice the Accuracy of Industry Benchmarks

Press Release New Audiences Leverage Advanced Data Science to Combine the Best of Bluekai, Datalogix and Third-Party Data Across Over 200MM Cookies Redwood Shores, Calif.—Nov 3, 2015 The Oracle Data Cloud today launched “Validated Demographics,” age and gender targeting across an audience of over 200MM unique IDs with up to twice the precision of age and gender benchmarks, per the industry-wide campaign norms tracked by Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings and comScore’s Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE).[1] “Too many digital impressions are served to the wrong demographic target,” said Eric Roza, Senior Vice President of the Oracle Data Cloud. “Validated Demographics helps eliminate waste by applying advanced Data Science across a range of different data sources to provide age and gender data that’s up to twice as accurate at unprecedented scale on both desktop and mobile devices.”  “When it comes to reaching the right audiences, balancing both scale and precision presents an ongoing challenge for advertisers and agencies,” said Mark Donovan, CMO of comScore. “Oracle’s Validated Demographics is a welcome addition to the marketer’s tool box that can enable smarter decision-making during the pre-bid process to drive improved campaign accuracy and ROI.”  Validated Demographics are drawn from the robust combined data assets of BlueKai, Datalogix, and third-party data partners, using a variety of verification methodologies, such as comScore vCE, to help ensure quality and measurability. “Validated Demographics – Max Precision” audiences offer Oracle Data Cloud’s highest level of age and gender targeting accuracy, and “Validated Demographics – Max Scale” audiences offer high  “AOL leads the industry in helping advertisers find and reach the best audiences for their campaigns across devices and channels using our ONE by AOL platform,” said Rob Finora, Vice President, Business & Partner Development, AOL Platforms. “Oracle’s Validated Demographics provides ONE by AOL with access to high-quality data that raises the bar on age and gender accuracy at scale, and we are very pleased to make it available to our clients.”  Validated Demographics are available today across over 200 of the largest media platforms and via Oracle’s Audience Data Marketplace. For more information, contact The Data Hotline at www.orcacle.com/thedatahotline.  [1] Accuracy metrics based on comparison of “Validated Demographics – Max Precision” audiences against comparable audience norms drawn from comScore vCE online interface and published Nielsen benchmark reports.

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A big congratulations to ALL the finalists of the 2015 Devvys - Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards #odevchoice

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Oracle Data Cloud to Accelerate Hiring of Data and Cloud Engineers

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Recruitment event on Wednesday, November 4 at former Datalogix HQ in Westminster, Colorado

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Nov 2, 2015

Oracle is hosting a HackerX event at the former Datalogix headquarters in Westminster, Colorado where local engineers can learn how Oracle is helping create the new and transformational Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) category. Datalogix was acquired by Oracle in early 2015 to bolster the company’s DaaS services.

The event kicks off recruiting efforts for the Oracle Data Cloud to support its growth going forward, as the company plans to hire more than 50 engineers in the next 6 months to bolster and build its growing portfolio of Data-as-a-Service offerings. Engineers can learn more about Oracle’s DaaS efforts, explore employment opportunities within the Oracle Data Cloud team, and meet former Datalogix executives who are now part of the Oracle team.

“The Oracle Data Cloud combines the best of start-up culture with the opportunities and impact that come from working for one of the industry’s iconic companies,” said Eric Roza, senior vice president, Oracle Data Cloud. “We have been given the mandate to create an entirely new industry – Data as a Service – with the resources, infrastructure, and support that only a large company can provide. We are looking for talented, hungry engineers who want to help us transform the world’s data landscape, and we look forward to meeting many of them at HackerX.”

Engineers who join Oracle Data Cloud will be part of a team creating innovative and groundbreaking data-driven solutions for marketing, sales and customer intelligence.

Additional Information

• Register for Hacker X, which will place on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time
• Former Datalogix CEO Eric Roza, now SVP of Oracle Data Cloud, and former Datalogix Chief Technology Officer Joseph Benjamin will host a Q&A with candidates

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Oracle President Thomas Kurian Demonstrates Oracle’s Cloud Innovation Across Applications, Platform, and Infrastructure Services

Press Release Customers can easily access and use these services from anywhere, using only a browser, Kurian says in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco—Oct 28, 2015 At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Thomas Kurian, Oracle President of Product Development, discussed new cloud services that show Oracle’s deep innovation across cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure services. Kurian also demonstrated several services on stage, showing how easily people can tap Oracle’s cloud services. “Any person, anyplace in the world, with just a browser, can access our cloud and get access to all these amazing new product innovations we've delivered,” Kurian said during his keynote Tuesday in San Francisco. Oracle’s cloud innovations span infrastructure, analytics, management, integration, database, and more. Cloud advances highlighted by Kurian include: ·         Infrastructure as a Service: Oracle has offerings across compute, storage, and networking that meet the spectrum of business needs. For example, cloud computing offerings range from its pay-as-you-go elastic computing to high-performance Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service and Oracle Big Data Cloud Service. Storage offerings include Oracle’s $1/terabyte/month service for archival storage. Kurian also laid out four different data transfer options for moving data into Oracle Cloud—including physical delivery for companies moving multiple petabytes of data. ·         Analytical Cloud Services: Oracle’s cloud products now serve three tiers of knowledge workers—data scientists, professional analysts, and self-service analytical users. Data scientists can use Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, and Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service to manage and analyze data using familiar tools such as Hadoop and SQL queries. Analysts have tools for integration and business intelligence. End users can use Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service for advanced, chart-driven analysis with only a spreadsheet and a browser. ·         Management Cloud Service: Kurian outlined new services for performance management, IT analytics, and log analytics via a common cloud management system. ·         Application Development Cloud Services: Developers can use Oracle’s platform to write apps in a range of languages, including Java, PHP, python, Ruby, NodeJS, .Net, and more. Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service helps non-technologists develop applications with a drag-and-drop interface. ·         Integrated Cloud Applications: Oracle has added more than 180 new modules and services to its cloud applications suite the past year, across enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, human capital management, marketing, sales, service, commerce, supply chain, and more. ·         Cloud Integration Services: Oracle has a variety of cloud services designed to make cloud service integration easy, including services that connect different systems, route data between them, and map and transform data from one system to another. Quotes from Thomas Kurian ·         “You only win when your customers love what you offer.” “Any person, anyplace in the world, with just a browser can access our cloud and get access to all these amazing new product innovations we've delivered.” “In application software-as-a-service, we introduced 183 new modules and services between the last day of the last Oracle OpenWorld and last Friday. Not only do we do ERP; EPM; human capital management; talent management; marketing; sales; service; e-commerce; configure, price, [and] quote; and order management. We now offer supply chain and manufacturing in the cloud. So it's the only full suite of cloud services.” “With the database-as-a-service… not only are we automating creation of the database; we're also automating all the day-to-day operational tasks—patching, back-up, everything.”

Oracle presiona el territorio de AWS con nuevos servicios IaaS por ComputerWorld

Los precios y la seguridad percibida serán los diferenciadores clave, afirma un analista.

Oracle le puso la puntería a un pedazo más grande del pastel del mercado de la nube con nuevos servicios IaaS que la ponen en competencia más directa con Amazon Web Services.

Los nuevos servicios de IaaS fueron presentados por Thomas Kurian, presidente de desarrollo de productos de Oracle, en su exposición en el OpenWorld en San Francisco.

En primer lugar, Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud permite que los clientes elijan entre las opciones de cómputo elásticas y dedicadas. Elastic Compute ofrece la capacidad de ejecutar cualquier carga de trabajo en la nube en una zona de cómputo compartida, mientras que la opción dedicada agrega capacidades tales como CPU pinning y el aislamiento completo de la red.

Compute Cloud soporta varios sistemas operativos como Linux y Windows, y cuenta con capacidades de monitoreo robustas, afirmó Oracle.

Por su parte, los dos nuevos servicios de almacenamiento en la nube, se centran en diferentes tipos de almacenamiento. La opción archivar proporciona almacenamiento para aplicaciones y cargas de trabajo a las que se accede con poca frecuencia y que requieren de una retención a largo plazo, con SLA predecibles para la recuperación de datos. El servicio File Storage, por otro lado, ofrece acceso de protocolo de red NFS v4 basado en archivos tanto a la capa Object Storage como a la Archive Storage en Oracle Storage Service Cloud.

Oracle Network Cloud está diseñado para proporcionar conectividad segura y de alto desempeño desde los centros de datos de los clientes hacia la nube, de acuerdo a un enfoque de configuración de red definida por software. Las opciones de conectividad incluyen VPN, Oracle Cloud Connect y network bonding.

Container Cloud permite a los clientes ejecutar aplicaciones dentro de contenedores Docker, los cuales pueden ser fácilmente desplegados en la Oracle Compute Cloud.

Finalmente, Oracle y sus socios han certificado varios stacks de tecnología en Oracle Cloud; éstos se encuentran disponibles en un catálogo de servicios estándar para simplificar el despliegue.

Los nuevos productos “realmente ayudan a completar la cartera de soluciones IaaS de Oracle”, afirmó Charles King, analista principal de Pund-IT. Incluyen los tipos de capacidades “más o menos genéricas” de cómputo, almacenamiento y redes, disponibles en las grandes nubes públicas, señaló King.

Al mismo tiempo, sin embargo, “Oracle está también haciendo bien en entregar los elementos fundamentales de su cartera de aplicaciones a través de la nube, incluyendo las soluciones eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft y JD Edwards”, señaló. “Eso debería animar el interés particular de los clientes de Oracle existentes, y también podría tentar a las empresas que ya están considerando el despliegue de esas soluciones”, anotó King.

Por su parte, la medida en que los nuevos productos IaaS de Oracle competirán con AWS, “depende en gran medida de dos cuestiones: Los precios y la seguridad percibida”, señaló King.

Los clientes de Oracle ya pueden ejecutar muchas o la mayoría de sus aplicaciones en AWS sin ningún tipo de pagos de licencias adicionales, por lo que “a menos que Oracle decida añadir un atractivo de algún tipo a sus nuevos servicios, podría resultar difícil tentar a que los clientes que ya utilizan AWS vayan a su propia IaaS”, agregó.

Del mismo modo, “aunque es común que los proveedores de TI promocionen sus propias plataformas en la nube como algo inherentemente más seguro que las plataformas de nube pública como AWS, eso podría ser un arma de doble filo para Oracle”, sugirió King. “Si la empresa tuviera que seguir esa línea, los clientes podrían preguntar por qué la compañía está colaborando con AWS en primer lugar”.

Katherine Noyes, IDG News Service

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Llegó el kernel de Linux 4.3, con más de 20 millones de líneas de código

Fuente: www.linuxadictos.com

Aunque el gran Linus Torvalds aún no realizó el anuncio oficial, el kernel de Linux 4.3 ya se encuentra disponible. En los repositorios, esto es, así que todos los que de alguna manera u otra colaboran en el proyecto del núcleo del gran sistema operativo libre ya están al tanto de su lanzamiento y comenzando a probarlo.

Una versión que llega con el hito de haber superado los 20 millones de líneas de código, algo que sorprende aunque en cierto modo se esperaba, si tenemos en cuenta que tiempo atrás nos enteramos en las estadísticas que el kernel de Linux estaba próximo a llegar a los 20 millones de líneas. Aún así, no deja de maravillar que en poco más de seis meses se hayan añadido casi un millón de nuevas líneas de código.

El kernel de Linux 4.3 llega con Gen9 (el driver gráfico Intel Skylake) habilitado por defecto, dejando atrás una larga etapa de fase experimental y en desarrollo. Pero también hay soporte inicial para la GPU de AMD R9 Fury, otra de las grandes de estos tiempos. Y siguiendo con los drivers gráficos, hay buenas novedades en el caso de los usuarios del driver Nouveau, que muestra un gran avance en términos de rendimiento y estabilidad.

Luego, tal y como se esperaba, se eliminó el driver Ext3 puesto que aparecía como algo demasiado redundante si tenemos en cuenta que el driver Ext4 implementa soporte para la versión anterior del sistema de ficheros predeterminado de Linux. Hay soporte para RAID 5 y 6 en Btrfs, y llega la esperada funcionalidad ARMv8.1, como así también optimizaciones para el inicio en arquitectura x86 y para el manejo de energía, un aspecto al cual los usuarios de este sistema operativo siempre prestamos atención (y ni que decir si en lugar de equipos de sobremesa se utiliza un portátil).