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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.
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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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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It is a cost effective and hight performing choice for modern infrastructure or consoling database instances. It is highly reliable secure and cloud ready Operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

With respect to Operating system I don't have any cons as of now. Sometimes it's hard to get support from Oracle support team and apart from that there are no issues with respect to Oracle Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is offering enhanced security and high performance.

It is giving advantage of having of zero downtime patching of servers which inturn maintaining 100% UPTIME of our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

I personally feel it is much more better than redhat linux. It has all the falvour what you have seen in typical linux. And its cheaper with better support quality. All the commands are very similar to redhat linux plus they are offering this on oracle cloud and ready to move our existing physical servers on oracle cloud, which is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Nothing is there that i dislike. Product is good. Sometimes it is hard to get hold of support team then we have to escalate it to the sales team to get our issue resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We need to use linux and the budget crunch is there. So oracle helped us achieve what is required for business and pre-support service is excellent. All the commands, looks and feel is very much similar to redhat linux, plus they helped us move our existing infrastructure to oracle cloud which is fabulous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It is fast, easy and intuitive to use. If you are using another linux distro on cloud, you should definitely try this one. I was able to get comfortable within a week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Since I use it on the cloud (console), it can be frustrating (like every console). The documentation is awesome and helps with those little issues you face while you are still learning how to use the console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was trying to use the Oracle Free Cloud tier; with Oracle Linux, I could install the MySQL database that I needed without any issues, connect from my windows computer and be ready to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux is one of the best alternatives for CentOS, which was discontinued last year.

We can easily convert the existing CentOS workload to Oracle Linux seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I don't see anything to dislike about the current Oracle Linux OS, which met all production workloads.

If the basis support price is reduced, then it would be very competitive in the market; Oracle may consider this . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Usually, when we switch from one Linux distro to another distro in Linux, it is painful with the conversion process and issues.

But Oracle provided a custom script which works efficiently to convert from CentOS to Oracle Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen Zak P.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It has all the features required for operating any application on your laptop or desktop. The best thing about it is that it is virus free and has all the updates required when wanted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Some applications do not work on it entirely as on windows; for example and music software Audacity do not work the way it works on windows. This needs to be upgraded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have no clue about the problems Oracle Linux is solving currently because I am not using Linux as an operating system on my PC. Maybe I will switch to Linux Mint for my musical software in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Linux's open-source capability has helped our organization deploy the Rise Vision Application. Having to pay for licenses for Windows would have increased our expenses and decrease our Yearly Budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The only notable downside of Linux is the learning curve associated with moving to it from a background in Windows. This has led me to have to take time out on my own to learn and understand the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Linux has solved the problem of providing a low-cost operating system to run and manage the Rise Vision Application. This has allowed our department to stay within budget and maximize our funding for other projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

vaibhav s.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Integration between Oracle Linux with other OCI products is excellent. Oracle Linux does good resource(CPU,RAM) management.

The best thing why we started using Oracle Linux is the security and reliability

We have moved our resources to oracle Linux due to its ability to work with high workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Licensing costs associated with each instance add up to your cloud bill.

Till the number of users who are using Oracle Linux is less. So you wont find much of help online if you are troubleshooting the issue

The user interface is not up to the notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can achieve good performance with our workloads securely and reliably. Our impression on our customers has improved because of using oracle Linux for our workloads

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Vinoth S.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

High performance, Compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Its good product but It has Commercial support costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Oracle Linux aims to address performance, compatibility, security, and support needs of organizations, especially those using Oracle products. The integration with Oracle hardware and software, enhanced security features, Ksplice technology, and commercial support options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It is very fast, lot of customization etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Not every application is supported on the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Better security than Windows

Fast and convenient

Less RAM consume

Run a lots of security applications etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to serach the report. and collect the data with proper date and time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

On oracle you will not find anything that you dont like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Repaort collection from data base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.