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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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Josin A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Thought on this OS"
By using this OS, its so convenient and helpful for doing anything, its so user friendly
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3.0 out of 5
"Good one but not the best"
doesnt hang much while using but it could be improved
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"Secure enterprise linux distro"
Security focused distribution. Red Hat based. Enterprise Linux standards. Frequent updates.
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Ihor Z.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

The secure environment provided by Linux environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

I didn't have any complaints when working with the OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It gave me the tools and work environment to securely operated my business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle is the most popoluar DB on all ou Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Oracle is the most popular among all my customers, so ist will may a best solution for all users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

Linux on Oracle were perfect combination I Thought Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Linux right now version were strong enough for performance as is on new hardware platform were continuously growth to the limit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Similarity to RHEL

Ease of Usage

Stable kernel releases

Smooth Integration with Oracle Database

Highly optimized

Performance

Works seamlessly in VM

Multiple inbuilt tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Less package Support

Very less Support for OpenSource Community

GUI Access

Not very efficient Support

The transition from Oracle Linux to Centos is not seamless

Slower than other Linux like Ubuntu Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

If you are intending to use Oracle Linux for setup and operating in Oracle Products then Oracle Linux is the best free OS to go with . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use oracle Linux primarily for the Oracle Database Enterprise version and the prerequisite packages are available and DB installation is very smooth, support for Oracle Products is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

I like that it's free to use and distribute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

It can be difficult to use and I have run into a lot of technical difficulties in the beginning when initially installed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a great secure system and helps protect data better than other operating systems. I have worked on it for a little bit for a project outside of my job, and it's something I would like to use again in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux is good OS distros, since it based on RHEL. Of course, we can use and utilize both "yum" or "dnf" commands on this Linux distros. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?

Not know for this, since I have tried to use Oracle Linux no more than one week Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:

I Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sure... just make it simple as it should be, where we can doing more with Oracle Linux in entire scope of work. It mostly similar when we use or operate Redhat-based distros, like CentOS, Alma or Rocky Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.