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Oracle Linux Overview

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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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Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle Linux Best OS for Oracle Applications"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Its very easy to use for our oracle applications,Most secure and very easy to connect and resolve any issues related to applications,One of the Best OS that we are using for Oracle applications,One of the cheapest and best OS for enterprise applications and support most of Oracle applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

More graphical and vnc features needs to be added ,Should be more friendly to the Naive users,Need to introduce more tools which comes by default to the OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maitry S.
MS
S
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It streamline our infrastructure development"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It improves security and lowers the cost.

It also optimizes performance.

It also improves scalability.

Its open cloud network.

Open source platform.

Vast community.

Easily avilable solutions.

Highly efficient and effective solutions available.

Easy installable with proper documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

It requires highly qualified technical administrators who are specialized in some skills set like shell scripting and vi editors.

It doesn't have any GUI, which makes it hard for less qualified people to understand it.

Because of lack of UI people don't preder to use it more compared to other open source platforms.

Required some coding standards which needs to be followed.

It require some technical knowledge.

Not UI friendly which is why it has less users compared to other open source platform because it decrease interaction for non technical people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rinky K.
RK
Operations Specialist 1
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle Linux is the best Linux based OS we have"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

the most stable version of enterprise Linux offered by Oracle for virtualization purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

kdump failing leads to wastage of time and effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raja L.
RL
DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good source"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Open source with best competative devlep Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

To get everything from a single instance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bikash G.
BG
Solutions Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"10 years as Linux admin."
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Great support by oracle technical support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

OS can be light weight in size and resources consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Qaisar M.
QM
Associate Database Consultant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oracle linux is excellent for oracle db"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Package already there to run oracle database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Gui must be more helpfull add excel worksheet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul P.
RP
Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It's really hard shell language and OS"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Light OS , for various applications quite suitable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The package store is far to reach in oracle Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nitin S.
NS
Specialist - Cloud and Automation
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The experience was good while working with Oracle, good learning environment."
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

A good learning environment and supporting managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

A little bit of office politics by managers and team leads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddhartha D.
SD
Module Lead Technical Support Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to manage and user friendly OS"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Managing this Operating system is very much easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

There is nothing much to dislike about this OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Neutral Linux Operating System"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Compatibility with Oracle products like WebLogic and Oracle DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Updates and patch management schedules are little deviated and command line is a little different Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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