Oracle Linux Pros and Cons

A major advantage of Oracle Linux is the method with which the operating system can be updated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing all good but Oracle does not have access to source code for Red Hat Extended Update Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux has a strong focus on security, with features like SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) and auditing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limited desktop support is primarily focused on server and enterprise environments, and may not have the same level of support for desktop environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux is stable, robust and innovative! It is compatible with RHEL, but offers much more like online patching and it is open source. Community support is great and has good amount of free updatable RPMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not sure if there is something I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ORacle is free to use and easy to share. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The repositories are seem to be on the slower side. It is little bit slower. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's preloaded with the package and rpm required for Oracle products. It's stable and compatible with Oracle and non-oracle products. Oracle Linux also supports virtualization via OLVM, which is a great add-on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GUI is not much attractive and straightforward. The installation screen looks too complex. It should be simple, or it should be divided into more pages. Sometime installation seems bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux is a very reliable and very secure operating system. It has the best security feature called Ksplice, and we can apply security patches without rebooting the server. We have seen Oracle Linux being of stability and uptime. Oracle charges low cost compared to other distros. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There aren't many things to dislike about it, except that Oracle Linux is only available in the Oracle cloud and not in the public cloud, so we can't use it in other cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and configuration for java and oracle technologies is much more comfortable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike about this. It has very confined boundary fro certain use cases so you have to go beyond some limits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has to notch compatiblity with centos and RHEL which ease its integration.It has n number of features.

It is very easy to implement and user friendly which increases the frequency of user and the best part is they provide premimum customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some open source packages which is not compatible with oracle linux and they have less focus on open source forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Based on Linux kernel , a stable,reliable,

and scalable OS

-Primarily used for deploying and running

Oracle Databases

-Also very useful in managing operating

systems, web servers traffic serviellance

etc.

-Provide Smooth and efficient workflow

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One improvement is that it provide much like closed nature of system and

Oracle is pushing towards cloud computing

Maintaining this OS behind firewall is cumbersome process

Support process is not good

Sometimes solution is not user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to adjust to this Linux, and it's integration with Oracle Database software and VirtualBox is handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, just the price for support services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.