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

We use oracle linux in our enviroment for a decade , it performs better with oracle database , easy knowledge base. Best support team who works 24/7 to troubleshoot. Available for on-prem & in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Not compatible with all hardware vendors , integration with other database wil be bit difficult. The major dislike is the cost , it's not affordable by small cap/mid cap companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Zero downtime patching feature , performance will be good with oracle DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

System Uptime will be maintained , runs excellently with oracle database which gives excellent performance. Zero downtime automated patching will be achieved in oracle linux environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is excellent operating system because it has all required package and libraries to implement in production with best security features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I don't have any disappointed point in OEL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I would recommend to others to use Oracle Linux to make life ease in IT field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has a required package and libraries and setting for installing Oracle Database core and RAC, no need to download from other vendors that's the great features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Earlier I used Oracle Linux 10g on RHL and it works in perfect tune, the memory management portion of oracle work so perfectly that on a high peak usage time user does not realize any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I did not find any dislike in Oracle Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Before Oracle Linux, we had another database in the windows platform which gives a huge utilization issue sometimes it consumes so much memory that the windows server itself gets hung and we need to restart the server from time to time may be regularly to overcome the issue. But after Oracle Linux, it works perfectly and we will no need to restart the server for 2 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad Mubashir H.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

User Friendly and built-in packages/rpm especially use for Oracle Databases / Application. Further, Its processing is also fast as compare to other operating systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I haven't experienced anything which I dislike in OEL. It's quite easy to use as well. But enabling the vnc and vnc port should be easier for system administrators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It reduces the processing time especially when you remove/delete a huge number of files and it saves us lot of time to find different packages required from Oracle Database as OEL have builtin packages for Oracle Databases / Application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

I like the familiar environment and feel to other RHEL based distros, including the Yum update manager and utility, it makes script creation and other automation tasks much easier to write across multiple distro environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I have had issues with installing an iso that was mounted to a USB key, however, I've experienced this issue with centos 8 also, the solution is either to re-mount the iso to the key, or just use a hypervisor and run in a VM, I have not had any issues with installation when using a hypervisor instead of a bare-metal system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was deploying Oracle Linux in a test environment as a student, I used those deployments to host MySQL/MariaDB and oracle databases for coursework and learning. I quite enjoyed the experience as it felt more stable than CentOS 8 based VMS that I was also using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ihor Z.
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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer & Developer
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Supporting the business processes and software, latest files in repositories, compatibilityvwith CentOS and RHEL software stack and package, opportunity to migrate from CentOS to Oracle Linux via automated scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

The licensing model is not that clear, as IT is a proprietary solution, besides of that everything is great with this distro, I would to see more services for connections to the Major cloud platforms in the package available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I would recommend this distro to users who wants to migrate from older CentOS releases to test this as an option - especially while using this platforms with VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are solved the problems of reproducing the customer environments with help of Oracle Linux and that was quite easy and efficient solution for software virtualisation on Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As this OS comes from Oracle, it is tuned well for database, which gives more stability to the over all OS and DB. The package are easy available, you can navigate to the official site and download required package for suitable OS version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

It would be great if the OS gets its tuned version for application as well like SAP basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I handle OS related issues, the major stuff I get is to view past performances of the server like utilisation of cpu, memory, disk IO (with PID). OSwatcher helps to get it. Which is one of the best tool helps to track down the performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satish  Kumar E.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle is the best Linux i have used in cloud and it gives better performance and high security for web servers and also it's the best os for running web servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

There is nothing much to dislike the Oracle Linux some of the package need to be fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I would recommend Oracle Linux operating system for who wants Better performance for there web application servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Oracle Linux operating system in cloud and it gives better performance and high security for web servers and also it's the best os for running web servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harshit G.
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Easy to manage, DR setup is best, secure enough to fulfill all compliance rules set by the banking authority. Freshers who learn this will have a great future prospects as there is tremendous growth opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Frequent upgrades. It could be a something one likes as well as dislikes. With continuous upgrades you are getting more and more features and also you have to make efforts to keep up to the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Make sure you setup your environment properly. Once you set it up correctly, it would ve very easy to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All the banking requirements we have to manage customer data, to fetch customer data, to cater to all their requests and show them accurate and fast results is something great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Good customized packages for installation and running of Oracle database. I have been personally using many versions of it. The 7 versions were pretty stable and good. But the 8 versions being used has many issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Not many things we dislike if our installation works fine. I have personally felt the Operating system to be stable and worth trusting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

If you are using Oracle products then using Oracle Linux has some advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Almost all the services i use are hosted using Oracle Linux running servers and they all have been performing well. Patching and upkeep has been the main advantage using Oracle Linux. As my organisation is a large scale user of Oracle products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.