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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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May 17, 2022
Perfect
I have installed Oracle 11,12 on Oracle Linux for banking core software DB and the only problem was getting updates from the source because of restrictions.
- 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 13, 2022
Oracle Linux insights
In my organization, we already use Oracle Linux, as experiments, for projects with Zabbix, Grafana, Syslog server, IPAM, and Elastic Stack. The goal was a closer approach to Oracle Linux and to use it as an alternative to replacing CentOs. The documentation is very well prepared and we had no difficulties in making these POCs.
- 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
In my current organization, I am the lead consultant for a Healthcare Client in the UK. So, we had to design, create and implement a top-class robust solution for the Infrastructure implementation. We chose Oracle Linux as an operating system as it is the best out there. Most of our java based applications which are very critical in Hospital management like Prescription generation, audit, Salary management, Staff management, and a lot more are built on top of Oracle Linux as it provides capabilities of RHEL along with the usability of Oracle databases. The blazing fast speed of oracle Linux handles our server load fluently and helps us run a smooth operation -24*7.
- 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!!
As a budding startup in the 5g sector, we are looking to innovate, scale, and automate. The flexibility, agility, and robustness of Oracle Linux make it a brilliant fit for handling infrastructure loads during deployments in Dev/Test servers along with customer load in production servers as well. Definitely recommended.
- 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.
Used to host our Applications and Webservers. The enterprise support is very good even during odd or out-of-office hours. We have hosted multiple applications on these servers including Database servers.
- High Performance.
- Good Support.
- Multiple Budget Options.
- Security.
- Providing more robust solutions.
- Clearing issues with the Disk Mounts.
March 02, 2022
Replace Solaris Unix with Oracle Linux
The main use case for using Oracle Linux was to save millions of dollars migrating from Solaris UNIX. The use of Oracle Linux Cloud provides scalability and a more accurate allocation of resources. Oracle Linux also provides high performance and secure operating environment. Most importantly, Oracle Linux is supported across both hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- 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.
January 29, 2022
Advantages of Oracle Linux
I first came across the Oracle Linux product when I was working for an Oracle partner Technology company. It was mainly used for training professionals in data administration such as Oracle database Administration Workshop I, Workshop II, Oracle Database 11g - Data Guard Administration, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), and security courses. Every command was run on top of this Linux distribution.
- 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
I’ve used oracle to perform daily ongoing business operations. It was good for [the] deployment of a new project and also awesome at registering client [systems] whether being a physical server or virtual machine guests. the only problem [that came from] a business point of view is the knowledge that people had about Oracle products, however, we tried our best to train our employees to overcome it.
- Client Registering
- Administration
- Patching
- Security auditing
- Configuration management
- Information sharing
- Knowledge base
- Custom support based on different domains.
- Scheduled deployment.
January 05, 2022
Perfect solutions
I use it as the main system of Database and Communication. There are so many functions that need to be implemented related to the end-user.
- Security
- Data
- Communication
- Browsing
- Storage
- Internet connection
- Remote support
December 31, 2021
Experience with Oracle Linux OS usage
Present use it as a core component in the test environment. Serving the IT team with basic setup services and support to others.
- Mission critical
- High volume data processing
- ROBUST
- Reliable
- security
- GUI improvement
- other os compatibility
December 30, 2021
Authentic review based on popularity of the product in our country.
Oracle Linux is best suited in our organization for service delivery and marketing of our products as it is an operating system so widely used in our country in so many different organizations especially in Colleges and universities. It provides great customer service and professional staff service delivery in different professions.
- Installing different softwares
- Service delivery
- Professional outlook
- Driver update must improve
December 28, 2021
Definitely not a disappointment
We used Oracle Linux to host several services which were used to develop a maintaining system. The system ran multiple services pretty well and was exactly what we expected it to do and perform the way we needed it to. But due to an NDA, I can't elaborate further.
- Performance
- Latency
- Configuration
- User friendliness
- Documentation
- API
December 01, 2021
Oracle Database Administrator
We are currently using Oracle Linux 7 to host our Oracle Databases, Apache HTTP server, PHP, Tomcat, Oracle & Reports for various Business Applications and Processes used by Western Cape Government.
- Host a variety of Databases like Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, etc.
- Host various Applications like PHP, Tomcat, Appache HTTP Server, Weblogic, etc.
- Operation System.
- I would like an easy way of installing packages through yum or rpm without stressing about which repository to find the package.
- Easy navigation through Graphical User Interface when needed.
- Easy Troubleshooting.
November 18, 2021
Low Cost High Return On Oracle Linux OS
I use to for some customer place, those wants to avoid CentOS. Oracle Linux widely supports all rpm and is similar to other Unix OS, it's good to use for SIEM implementation. Typically for Splunk Enterprise, the base OS I use sometimes when it needs to be different.
- Support all features required for Splunk Implementation.
- Syslog-NG also supported.
- Crontab also working as per expectation.
- As such improvement has not been seen. But in GNOME, yes more graphical look and feels will be good to have.
November 15, 2021
Points noticed about OracleLinux
The product is actually good as a whole but needs a bit of more community support also propagation within advanced Unix-based system users. Liked that is based on the red hat as it’s mainly targeted by large enterprises and with some extra effort it will achieve a good reputation within the Linux users community.
- Scalable
- Robust
- Efficient
- More updates.
- Support for different integrations.
- Focusing security holes.
November 12, 2021
Secure and Reliable Platform for Business Critical Workloads
Oracle Databases and Oracle EBS applications in our environment run on the Oracle Linux Platform. We get support for our database, application, and operating system from a single vendor. Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is fine-tuned to ensure optimal performance for Oracle Databases. Oracle certifies product compatibility for various releases of Oracle databases, applications, and Oracle Linux after thorough testing and this gives us the confidence to run the business-critical applications on Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux is very secure and can be used on-premises as well as in Cloud. Being a cloud-ready operating system, this will allow smooth migration of workload from on-premises to Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance
- Support
- Regular bug fixes.
- Regular critical patch updates.
- TigerVNC needs some fine tuning in Oracle Linux 8.4.
- AutoTuning of Kernal Parameters for Oracle Databases based on the available hardware resources.
- Embedded IPA Solutions to manage large number of Oracle Linux Systems.
- Simple commands for LUN management.
- Proactive SELinux policy violation message to administrator's mailbox.
November 09, 2021
Great one
Yes, it's good for SCM, PeopleSoft, Retail, and banking sectors for storing and retrieval processing.
- OS compatibility.
- User friendly commands.
- Libraries are great with ease installation for Oracle.
- Nothing I can say.
November 08, 2021
Reliable and Secure Product
Oracle Linux is a flexible tool that is being used in various departments of our organization. This is used to handle the data that is present on our servers. This is very safe and secure, and very easy to manage which helps us in solving a lot of business problems that we faced earlier.
- Very secure and safe to use.
- Performance is optimized.
- Administration and Installation is easy.
- User Interface requires some improvement.
- Feature upgrade requires time.
- Customer Service could be improved.
November 08, 2021
Oracle Linux Review
We are using Oracle in the company to run our core applications solving our money transactions problems and card processing.
- Running Oracle RAC with shared storage, both servers can write.
- Very good administrative tasks easily applied.
- Commands are controlling every bit in text.
- More user interface management.
- Better documentation.
November 08, 2021
Oracle Linux Review
We have implemented our databases on Oracle Linux for our customers and that is being used by a few departments of our organization, not by the full organization. Even when I need to perform some R&D work I perform the same on Oracle Linux on my personal laptop.
- I don't need to create Oracle user when using Oracle Linux.
- I don't need to create groups as well for installation of Oracle Database.
- It is easier to use for Oracle Database.
November 08, 2021
Review on Oracle Linux Product
We use Oracle Linux as an operating system for our Oracle e-business suite applications, it pretty much delivers the robustness, security, and scalability to our organizational needs. Till now we have not found any serious issues with it, we regularly apply the bug fixes on the operating system, databases, and applications.
- Security
- Scalable
- Robustness
- I guess GUI needs little more improvement.
- Plug and play options should be more user friendly.
- System monitoring should be also clubbed with GUI.
November 08, 2021
Oracle Linux Review
Oracle Linux is used by one of the customers we support, they had a premium license and we used multiple features from Oracle Linux. The main feature that we used is online patching for Linux servers using Ksplice. It is a very useful tool to apply patches on servers online including kernel and we were able to resolve so many issues related to downtime and long hours of a production outage. I am glad to work on this product and continue to work and be able to use most of the features.
- Support
- Linux patching made easy with Ksplice.
- Oracle Cloud
- New feature development according to needs of customers.
- Subscription cost management.
- Ease of use for all level users.
- Create more awareness in people.
November 04, 2021
Review of Oracle Linux
It is being used within the organization by different user groups and students. I am also one of the active users using it. It is one of the secure OS and new technology that has been introduced to the new students which address the current security issues. Earlier on open source, OS was used but due to the security issues, we had to switch to Oracle Linux.
- Support cost.
- Runs well on Oracle Database.
- Kernel Security.
- It only works with Oracle Products.
- Documentation
- Less community
November 04, 2021
Less known but an OS on par in performance.
We have decided to replace old windows machines with Oracle Linux machines. This initially we thought would create some unknown issues, but after using Oracle Linux for months, we felt that this was a good decision which was made then. I can say Oracle Linux has all the features that Windows has and in some in exceeds the expectations.
- Since it's a free and open source software, it suits great even for small startups.
- Lots of stable features.
- Backed by prestigious corporation.
- Good support team.
- GUI could be enhanced to match the ease of Windows/Ubuntu.
- Technical learning curve for new users could be reduced with best tutorials.
- Since this has less users, support community pages from users are very less.
November 02, 2021
Oracle Linux Review
Oracle-Unix + Exadata is used in day-to-day activity in my banking project. It helps to store data and prepare reports and send reports to regulatory on day by day basis.
- Stability
- Support
- Performance
- Scalability
- It should reduce little licence cost.
- Should have more flexible to handle un-structure data.
- It should have flexibility for both horizontal and vertical scaling.