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Oracle Linux Overview

What is Oracle Linux?

A highly performant and secure operating environment, Oracle Linux delivers virtualization, management, automation, and cloud native computing tools, along with the operating system, in a single, easy-to-manage support offering. Oracle Linux provides a 100% application binary compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux and is supported across both hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Oracle Linux brings the latest Linux innovations to market, delivering extreme performance, advanced scalability, and reliability for enterprise applications and systems along with worldwide, enterprise-class, low-cost support. Optimized for enterprise workloads, Oracle Linux is the only operating system to offer zero-downtime updates.


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K Bharath K.
KK
K Bharath K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Oracle Linux in 2025: Reliable, Secure, and Cloud-Ready?"
Free and RHEL-compatible: 100% binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, without licensing fees. Stable and Secure: Enterprise-grade secu...
Deepak G.
DG
Deepak G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A Reliable and Secure OS for Enterprise Environments"
Oracle Linux offers exceptional stability and performance, especially in enterprise-level applications. Its compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise L...
Smart E.
SE
Smart E.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Reliable, Secure, and Enterprise-Ready Linux Distribution"
Oracle Linux stands out for its stability and enterprise-grade performance. I particularly appreciate its compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Lin...

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Oracle Linux Pros and Cons

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Ankit G.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

How oracle supports its every product and its very stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Sometime support guys dont show much interest on issues or take too much time to understand and by that time oracle engineer will change Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better support than any other unix system. Our whole environment runs on oracle linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge H.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Very easy to work with, straightforward and is used by variety of different companies now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Installation can be difficult as well as updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

At this time I am not aware of any issues that are being fixed that would benefit me personally for my class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YJ
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux is same as Redhat Enterprise Linux when it is running on standard Redhat compatible kernel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I don't like their UEK kernel (UEK: Oracle's Unbreakable Enterpirse Kernel) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Oracle may force you to pay licenses to use Oracle Linux - look at what they did to Jave SE. But this is only a concern so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Regular Linux Applications such as LAMP. Benefits are you don't have to pay for support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal L.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Less vulnerable

Fast response

Manage security threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux was a lot more expensive for an OS that doesn't offer anything more than RHEL does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Major downtime reduced

Improved security of my infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mubeen A.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It is easy to use oracle products like oracle installations etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I never saw any downside so i like oracle linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I recomend who is using oracle products must use oracle linux it will save your time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using oracle database 11g.12c.19c in dev environment and production env Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit N.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's a highly performant and secure operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Aside from their business practices, a lot of the hate comes from having to deal with them as clients . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

It's very difficult because all the market captured by Redhat Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Inwws installing otlracl linux on ware , my windows is too small , in this case I can't see all option when I want to create LVM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Linux by far has the most capabilities when it is compared to windows and apple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Only real downside is the lack of applications that are able to be run on Linux, but if you can look past this it is an amazing operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's solving the problem of locating files. Locating files was much harder in Windows and Apple than when I used MacBooks and windows, I would have just a plethora of files on my desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad H.
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Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Sql queries and specially sub queries is easy to handle as compare ms sql server. The feature of materialized view is helpful to optimize queries for complex relational database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

No proper ide for oracle client database. I am using Sql Developer which need more upgrade system for load huge package body. Provide proper ide for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Best for security and complex systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Purpose of oracle linux to store data of my application. The biggest advantage is security because I am working in fintech domain which need security. Also some features provide advantage to handle complex database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan M.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's optimized for oracle databases and tonuse on a spark server, has a great user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Maybe that you need yo know different set of commands for do the features of this distribution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Try to know and have a lot of diagram of the flow of your database for better implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better performance of oracle databases, easy administration of databases cluster with the same distribution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waseem A.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux is very useful and free OS which is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

We can't upgrade the yum with a specific release Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Oracle Linux is very good OS and specially for OLVM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?

All the admin job's and yum is good and free and also KVM setup is very good (OLVM) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.