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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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"Good one but not the best"
doesnt hang much while using but it could be improved
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.