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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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KJ
ORACLE DATABASE AND LINUX ADMINISTRATOR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Features of Oracle Linux "
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Ability to quickly and efficiently deploy an environment that is ready to deploy an Oracle database Server.Administration is easy and smart of said product.Best product to deploy E-Business System and other oracle products.Good full text search functionality .oracle linux with UEK can be deployed either on physical servers or on virtual servers.oracle linux and oracle vm are optimized and well engineered to work together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

With Third party application oracle linux was not adjusted able. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Manager, Business Information Systems"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

We have been using ODA over 3 years now and base OS is Oracle Linux. I found it robust, easy to navigate especially it works well with the ODA component and never had problem at the OS level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Frequency of patch updates. It hard to keep up with the patch deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Stable, Standard, Performant"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Application stability and Performant OS. Always gives reliable performance even under stress. The systems are pretty standard and help with a lot of the devops style deployments to go absolutely smooth. Love the Linux community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The Oracle Repositories sometimes lack some of the nicer tools that many other Xnix systems like CentOS and Ubuntu support out-of-the-box. I did love to see them pre-packaged or atleast remain available through additional repo files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AB
Finance analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle "
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It gathers al kinds of information and summarize it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Its a little bit old fashioned, not the best erp out there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solid Linux distribution"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Very little to go wrong here, has a good pedigree. Basically works as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

There have been a few issues with package upgrades, sometimes dependencies don't have the right version available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MG
Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pretty simple Linux distributive."
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

High performance. Useful controls. Easy to customize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Pretty meager user interface. Requires improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TC
Customer Service Representative
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Quick, Easy, Crsh"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's honestly quick and really easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

It crashes entirely too easily. I can be in the middle of an email or call and out of nowhere the entire system will crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NN
Integration Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle Linux a must have OS Choice"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

memory management

kernel pre-tuned

excellent Oracle support

well documented solutions for issues on Oracle support site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

better adoption by all cloud providers required

need to improve the integration with webmin

more plug-ins need to be provided for popular monitoring tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VG
Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle Linux"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Easy to use, upgrade and secured. Patch upgrades are simple. Normal linux commands works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

No GUI interaction so developer needs terminal use habit (though it's common for unix systems). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
AT
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fast and easy to use and mantain"
What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Its 100% compatible with RedHat and has support. It is faster than a Widows system and you can install Oracle with great advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The terms of license, it is not a free or GNU product. You have to pay. The installation process maybe noyt suitable for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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