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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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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Excellent OS For Oracle Applications,very easy to use for Oracle Applications and other enterprise applications,Better than other OS such as Windows OS which is very costly and not easy to use compare to Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our applications are well certified and compatible with the Oracle Linux and very easy to use and install our Oracle applications with Linux,One of the Best OS To use for Oracle Applications,Secure and easy to install and connect,easy to maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maitry S.
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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Effective and highly efficient.

It has good security which prevents some failures and hacks.

Open-source platform.

It Improves scalability and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is supported by an oracle.

It has good security, which lowers the cost and improves the performance of any system.

It improves the scalability of the system.

Using Linux security hacks can be avoided.

It is an open-source platform that provides a big community.

It has an extensive community, which is good at times to get better solutions.

Efficiency is good, and that provides more solutions to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rinky K.
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Operations Specialist 1
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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.

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

Deploy enterprise solution on Oracle Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raja L.
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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.

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

Our WebLogic platform for database development and integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bikash G.
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Solutions Architect
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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

You will enjoy running it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are running production grade application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Qaisar M.
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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.

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

Oracle database runs very smooth alternate of redhat and solaris Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul P.
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Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I strongly recommend this OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All vulnerabilities problem and slowness issues are resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nitin S.
NS
Specialist - Cloud and Automation
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

No advice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

aUTOMATION AND CLOUD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddhartha D.
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Module Lead Technical Support Engineer
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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.

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

Using it for RAC deployments (clustering) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Oracle Linux can be used and preferred if you want to closely tie with Oracle Products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More compatibility with command line tools for Oracle Products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.