CPUs for uncommon platforms such as VMS and Tru64 are available upon request. Oracle will continue to include fixes for those vulnerabilities in the main product code line and current patchset(s).” Commonly used platforms aside from Linux and Windows include Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and others. Beginning with CPUJul2007, Oracle will deliver patches for these historically inactive platform-version combinations to customers on an on-demand basis.

According to “Oracle will no longer issue proactive patches for platform-version combinations that have had fewer than 10 downloads in the prior CPU period. If you need a CPU on a particular platform that does not already have one available, submit a request to Oracle and they will port it. Customers don’t always download every platform for every CPU, so Oracle does not create a patch set for several platforms unless a customer requests it. Oracle has a separate team to port code to other platforms at a later date. Microsoft Windows has been gaining in popularity as an Oracle platform and it typically uses the same x86 or x86_64 platform as most Linux installations, so that is usually next. They will release on this platform first. Linux is a very popular one and it also happens to be the platform on which Oracle developers write their software. Josh Shaul, Aaron Ingram, in Practical Oracle Security, 2007 PlatformsĪnother part of Oracle’s patching philosophy involves platforms (i.e., the operating systems on which Oracle runs). We’ll use a combination of serial and network ports to communicate with the target, as well as to debug target code. A USB-to-serial converter should work fine. You will need at least one asynchronous serial port. The virtual machine gets 1 GB of RAM and has a 65 GB disk. I do most of my Linux work on a “virtual” machine (more about that later) running under Windows 7 on an HP laptop.

While you can “get by” with 20 GB of disk, later we’ll be building the Yocto project, which requires more like 50 GB. Of course, more RAM and disk is always better. Minimum requirements are: a Pentium class processor, 1 GB of RAM for graphical operation, and at least 20 Gbytes of disk for a “workstation” class Linux installation. Any modern PC will work just fine as a development host.

Having selected a distribution, you need something to run it on.

Doug Abbott, in Linux for Embedded and Real-Time Applications (Fourth Edition), 2018 Hardware Requirements

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