Yeah, this was a deliberate licence incompatibility from Oracle designed to hurt Linux specifically. Take it up with Larry Ellison and the rest of Trump's cabinet.
Ubuntu decided to just Do It Anyway, so there's that avenue for pre-built kernels, but my experience with that a decade ago left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe they got better?
Space Hobo
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