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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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Oracle Linux Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Not only does it arrive with pre-configured and pre-optimized packages for a direct installation of the database, but it is a product that is already within the Oracle architecture, which makes integration with other platforms of the same type more straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Perhaps customer support should focus more on end-to-end service than on technical knowledge about the product. From the user's point of view, I would say that increasing storage would make space management much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its easy functionality in the interface and the ability to come with pre-configurations allows more time savings, which in this case is completely precious in the aspect of reducing downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

High reliability and performance . Secured feel to work with Oracle products. It will improve security, reduce downtime, simplify operation and much useful in our daily task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Nothing to dislike . I like to live in open source. I feel comforts to work with Oracle. It's user-friendly and gives accuracy in work. No more points for dislike the Oracle. I feel useful to work with Oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

It delivers virtualization, management, automation, and easy to mange support offering. Supports many tools for cloud native platform . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Maintaining web applications and dockeriztion. The benefits are keep up with compliance, manage security threats and mitigate against vulnerabilities much faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

The easy desktop features. Simple step to install the OS on the machine. Can dual boot my system with windows. Have excellent features compared to Ubuntu OS. Software Installation on it is also easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The total ISO size is large, needs more time to download. More easy features to handle API calls need to be added. More mobile-friendliness is required so more easily can be integrated with mobile apps also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Install it first then try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have my complete Oracle database in it, I even tried to have MongoDB and Twitter installed for my Ph.D. work. I am currently working on machine learning and deep learning model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khurram Khalid B.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's very stable for databases and secure. It's also easy to use and has good control via the command line also GUI compatible with oracle database so easy to handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I am using this product for the last 10 years So far I didn't dislike anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

It's easy to use and very stable as compare to other OS in market. It's security features are also amaging and I found their support is one of the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stability of databases. Bugs control. It's also very good in its security features.More compatible with oracle database. less effort is required to set parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's responsive and makes older equipment breathe again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Not all the regular windows software will be available for you on this platform but don't worry because there are thousands of free open source versions available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's making otherwise old or obsolete machines work well again thus saving money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siril J.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It provides great performance to the Oracle products running on the system. For instance, Oracle DB performs muh better on the OEL platform. Compared to other vendor's Linux, OEL is used in setting up the whole Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Managing of the repository is a bit of pain in OEL as compared to its competitors. The support from Oracle needs to be better as REDHAT provides better technical support for RHEL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Its a great platform for running Oracle workloads and the support will be much more cost effective while combined with other Oracle products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

OEL is very useful if you're having a hardware Infrastructure from Oracle. Runninf OracleDB on OEL has evidently increased the performance. And the enterprises can have cost savings if they're running pn Oracle hardware with OEL and OracleDB as they'll be paying less for the suppy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran D.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

I have been using oracle linux for years but I have started using oracle linux 8.5 for deployment of kubernetes master and worker nodes. Speed and simplicity I found it easy to use and faster than many other os platforms. U can also resolve dependancies simply using yum. So with docker containers and kubernetes this works best and its my experiance which is talking. So go ahed and spinup ec2 oracke linux instances and get your handon. Also it works magic on onpremise setups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I think there are very few downsides of using oracle linux. So go ahed and use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am hosting many enterprise as well as light weight applications using containers and kubernetes on top of oracle linux. Which is very much faster and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepak C.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

There are many things that i like about it. I worked in various OS including AIX, Solaris and Window. But Oracle Linux is best among them in terms of the managing system.

Let me summarize the best thing about this

- Easy to manage

- Easily availability of RPM

- Best tuning/Management tool

- Best oracle database performance

- Support in an engineered system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

There is nothing I dislike about it. If it's in my power, I would like to scrap all other LINUX flavored OS and use only Oracle Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were installing all applications and Database in Oracle Linux . Database version include Oracle 11g,12c ,19c and 21c.

Installed all sorts of oracle applications in Oracle Linux box including EBS , Fusion middleware ,Hyperion stack etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It delivers a secure and a high-performance environment. The benefits include virtualization ,management , orchestration and automation. Its easy to use and learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

As oracle is trying to correct a lot of issues and bugs from the previous versions of oracle linux. Apart from a few minor ignorable gliches. i found Oracle Linux to be useful and on the money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I believe that Oracle Linux is worth giving a try. I would like to recommend to all my professional colleagues to use oracle Linux in their environment and hel achive a better infrastructure as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have worked with oracle Linux in the past and I have solved a lot of problems on the on-prem server like automation for known issues. The adaptability and ease of use helped me achieve all the tasks fluently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samieullah K.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

It's very user-friendly. Well managed and organized structure. Update, upgrades, and other software installations are very easy, reliable, and secure. Additional tools like KSplice provide great help to run systems smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I didn't found yet anything very serious that someone can dislike in this system. There are many tools that help to configure the system which was not available before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Linux flavor provided by Oracle is best among all others in the market with respect to almost all aspects of the product like the ease of use, ease of setup, ease of getting support from the vendor, and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Running corporate business-level software is always a challenge. Here comes the key product with solutions, the Oracle Linux. We get almost everything parts of this operating system which requires running any big software like DBs, ERP, Web Servers, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.