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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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Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems.


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doesnt hang much while using but it could be improved
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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Having a dedicated operating system that can also be used for free with power of linux is a very exciting combination for database provider for critical business operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Nothing much to complain to be honest, if you go for the free option which is without their support, it is quite a lot you get for the free price tag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Setting up Oracle Database on a normal operating system can be a hit or miss. It can be complicated to setup on linux especially when you are not familar with firewalls and gettings things aligned without shooting yourself in the foot and leaving a security hole in your configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

1 Security.

2 Reliability.

3 Performance.

4 Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux , so stable.

5 Affordable.

6 Available in variety of Edition.

7 Easy to Manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

1 Cost.

2 Support.

3 Features limited to specific editions.

4. lacking Integration with other oracle products

5. Does not have many third party application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost-effectiveness: variety of licensing options to fit your budget.

Security: protectecting your data & systems from attack.

Reliability.

Performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

The platform and software have huge architecture and I appreciate the system presentation and the technology is great. The speed of the system is much better than competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I do not like the high cost. It could integrate better and offer better small enterprise software services etc. Expand the and update software for free would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is solving our small enterprise solutions via our existing iot system the benefits are higher revenues making us more productive increasing our business operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

To update the kernel Live without having it reboot, which is attractive for business that wants a little downtime. Amazing. You can run graphical Linux apps on Oracle Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

It does not claim 100% bug-to-bug compatibility with RHEL. If one wants a support contract, then it is chargeable. Moreover, it uses its own UEK rather than standard one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nice alternative to centOS and it is free to use, nice UI and easy to use. It helps to handle the visualization, development and management of cloud-related applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

With Oracle Linux we have a utility ksplice which helps us patch Oracle Linux servers without downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

No downsides found till now to present here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

with Oracle Linux we can patch the server without any downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

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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.