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What is Oracle Linux?
Oracle Linux, which is application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is free to download, use, and share. There is no license cost, no need for a contract, and no usage audits. 24/7 enterprise-grade support is available for business critical environments. A single support offering includes virtualization, management, HA, and cloud native computing tools such as Kubernetes and Kata Containers, along with the Linux operating system. The vendor states that as the only Linux distribution with zero-downtime automated patching for kernel, hypervisor, and critical user-space libraries, Oracle Linux improves performance of all workloads and is optimized–out of the box–for Oracle software. Autonomous Linux, a self-patching, self-tuning, high-performance implementation of Oracle Linux is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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- Supported: Zero-downtime automated patching for kernel, hypervisor, and critical user-space libraries
- Supported: Optimized–out of the box–for Oracle software
- Supported: A single support offering includes Linux, virtualization, management, HA, and cloud native computing tools
- Supported: Available on premises, in the cloud, and as Autonomous Linux
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October 16, 2023
Why you should switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux
- CentOS/RHEL compatibility is top notch.
- The migration script is very easy to use.
- Oracle Linux has been freely available since version 6, so there is the confidence that it will remain that way.
- The repositories seem slower than the CentOS repositories.
- It is poorly marketed to the wider enterprise Linux community.
- Oracle's aggressive reputation does make some customers nervous about selecting it.
May 17, 2022
Perfect
- Stable
- Reliable
- Fast
- Very user friendly and smooth to work with and many documents
- Handy
- User friendly
- Available documents
- The main data base of many banks are on it and running very wel
May 16, 2022
Oracle Linux my way to go
- Database hosting
- Dockerization
- Webhosting
- Print serving
- Firewall with Nat iptables
- Installation faster
- More security profiles when installing
- Info in the installation interface for beginners
May 16, 2022
Very happy to use Oracle Linux.
- Good performance for Oracle databases.
- Easy to deploy Oracle databases.
- It could be installed with Oracle ASMLIB already in it.
- Contain a tool to prepare server to have Oracle Database installed.
May 13, 2022
Oracle Linux insights
- Zabbix
- Grafana
- Syslog
- The limited knowledge base on the Oracle website sometimes could make it difficult for tshoot.
- The user's interface could be improved to attract more user's engagement.
- The Oracle Linux, needs to offer support to more packages.
April 24, 2022
ORACLE LINUX REVIEW 2022 -- A Performance Beast
- Oracle Linux helps run native databases on the same operating systems that they were developed on.
- Docker and Kubernetes support.
- Oracle Linux is so powerful that you can patch the vulnerabilities faster than 74% of the organizations.
- The support provided by oracle guys is one of the best.
- All the traditional Linux commands are supported.
- The limited knowledge base on the Oracle website sometimes makes it difficult for troubleshooting.
- Some bugs are observed while working with the GUI . That needs to be fixed urgently.
- There is a scope of improvement in kernel-level configuration.
- The license cost is little on the higher side.
April 24, 2022
Oracle Linux is Here and Its Here to STAY!!
- Cloud applications/docker and Kubernetes support is one of the best.
- Highly reliable and excellent performance.
- The similarity with the linux commands and Hierarchy makes it fairly easy to use.
- The user interface is good but needs to improve for user engagement.
- Now need to develop as a cross-functional product with compatibility with other OS like Windows and Mac. This is currently missing from the product.
- License cost is little on a higher side.
March 31, 2022
Oracle Linux is one of the best.
- High Performance.
- Good Support.
- Multiple Budget Options.
- Security.
- Providing more robust solutions.
- Clearing issues with the Disk Mounts.
March 17, 2022
Works as good as it was sold to us.
- Usual linux comand syntax
- Ease of patching
- kernel stability
- The licensing is expensive.
- Oracle Linux, needs to support more packages.
- Zabbix is not recommended for install on Exadata Servers
March 02, 2022
Replace Solaris Unix with Oracle Linux
- Oracle Linux installation and setup is quick and easy with minimal downtime.
- Oracle Linux provides integrated suite of Linux optimized tools.
- Oracle Linux patching is automated and does not require rebooting.
- The learning curve for using Oracle Linux is much less than expected and zero time if you already know UNIX.
- Oracle Linux does not fully support the open source community.
- The Oracle Linux documentation for support is lacking and often non-existent.
- Oracle Linux needs to support more packages.
- Oracle Linux GUI compatibility needs improvement and expanding.
- Huge pages.
- IO scheduler.
- Limits.d.
- Oracle ERPs.
- Oracle clusters.
February 21, 2022
Edge of Oracle Linux
- Portability
- Multitasking
- Security
- UI access
- Email feature
- Virtualization
February 11, 2022
Very Good OS
- Performance
- Security
- Kernel optimization
- App compatibility
February 10, 2022
Oracle Linux is obvious choice for Oracle DB
- Oracle Linux is a stable and reliable OS based on RHEL.
- Compatible with Oracle DB and well supported by Oracle.
- Manageability and Security.
- Easier upgrades between major releases.
February 01, 2022
Ready to run databases in Oracle
- Support costs are lower than Red Hat
- It comes pre-built to run Oracle
- It's great to have for an Oracle dataset server
- It's more confusing than Windows
- If you want to use it on CentOS for example, the kernel is not compatible
- It does not have a very friendly interface
January 31, 2022
Oracle Linux Customer Review
- Index usage
- Durabillity
- Atomicy
- Partitioning
- High availability
- Goldengate
- Ora explanations
- Logs
- GUI
January 29, 2022
Advantages of Oracle Linux
- Shell Scripting
- System Administration
- Database Administration
- User management
- Slower than other Linux ( Say Linux mint, Ubuntu).
- Lack of technical support.
- Difficult to troubleshoot.
January 17, 2022
The power of Linux
- Client Registering
- Administration
- Patching
- Security auditing
- Configuration management
- Information sharing
- Knowledge base
- Custom support based on different domains.
- Scheduled deployment.
January 13, 2022
Oracle Linux
Score 10 out of 10
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- Performance.
- Easy maintenance and handling.
- High availability.
- All in place.
- SFTP is native.
- Security is better than other OS.
- Oracle Database installation is easy.
- Database works better than on Windows.
January 06, 2022
centos will do the trick at no cost
- It's stable
- Fully customizable
- Like any other Linux
- Kernel upgrade switch module included at no additional cost.
January 05, 2022
Perfect solutions
- Security
- Data
- Communication
- Browsing
- Storage
- Internet connection
- Remote support
January 04, 2022
Unbreakable and trusted partner OS
- Unbreakable
- Trusted
- Flexible
- more container features
January 04, 2022
Oracle Linux is my favorite OS
- Updates
- Up-time
- Performance
- Better repositories
- Better support documentation
- Oracle Linux should have a different name, it is hard to search in the web.
January 03, 2022
My best experience with Oracle Linux
- Performance
- Database Compatibility
- Fine Tuning
- Support
- Kernel modules
- Storage Compatibility
- Log Debug
January 03, 2022
Oracle Linux review
- resource management
- virtualizations drivers are very fast and compatible with RHEL binaries
- it can be patched without reboot
- OEL Support team responding very fast and able to help us in short time
- feature upgrades is very slow compared with RHEL
- there is no community support or shared Ops knowledge base, you have to raise a ticket for every issue
- the documentation need to be updated and improved