3 Installation and Availability

Important:

The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See Oracle Open Source Support Policies for more information.

We recommend that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.

You can install Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 on Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 or later or Oracle Linux 7 Update 1 or later, running either the Red Hat compatible kernel or a previous version of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. If you are still running an older version of Oracle Linux, first update your system to the latest available update release.

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 is supported on the x86-64 architecture but not on x86.