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Oracle Linux

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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…

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Recent Reviews

Oracle Linux insights

9 out of 10
May 13, 2022
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In my organization, we already use Oracle Linux, as experiments, for projects with Zabbix, Grafana, Syslog server, IPAM, and Elastic …
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Edge of Oracle Linux

10 out of 10
February 21, 2022
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Our supply chain product uses various platform that is hosted on different OSs like Unix, Linux, Windows. Earlier it was supported on Red …
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Director in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
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Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux

Free

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…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.oracle.com/linux/support.ht…

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Oracle Solaris

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What is Oracle Solaris?

Oracle Solaris is a Linux operating system which was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and became an Oracle product after the acquisition of Sun in 2010.

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Product Demos

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Product Details

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.



Oracle Linux Features

  • 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

Oracle Linux Video

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Oracle Linux Competitors

Oracle Linux Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Oracle Linux Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Linux starts at $0.

CentOS Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued) are common alternatives for Oracle Linux.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of Oracle Linux are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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October 16, 2023

Why you should switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Linux should be at the top of your list when considering a replacement for your CentOS 8 servers. The excellent compatibility and ease of migration mean that you have a worthy, stable replacement for your CentOS environments, without the risks of CentOS Stream or confusion with Red Hat's subscription model.
May 16, 2022

Very happy to use Oracle Linux.

Francisco Teixeira de Morais Jr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Francisco Teixeira de Morais Jr
Oracle Database Administrator
Kyndryl (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mostly to run on the Oracle RAC database. It's very well suited and makes the installation very easy. Also, the performance seems to be superior to other Linux versions. I have not tried to install Oracle Linux in order to run other services, so I can not tell if it's good or not for others than Oracle databases.
May 13, 2022

Oracle Linux insights

Verified User
General Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I mentioned in another question I believe the scenarios that Oracle Linux is well suited are using as a distribution to install apps such as Zabbix, Grafana, Syslog Servers, Elastic Stack, IPAM, and other's administrative tools for sysadmins. The scenarios where Oracle is less appropriate could be associated with user GUI, for example. I believe the user's GUI could be improved.
April 24, 2022

ORACLE LINUX REVIEW 2022 -- A Performance Beast

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Priyanka Dhuria
Senior Consultant
JK Tech (Consumer Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As the Healthcare domain is very customer-centric and demanding, the application should be always available with almost zero downtime to cater to the needs of our huge customer base. This was highly achieved when we brought Oracle Linux into our infrastructure base. The speed, agility, and support made our customers satisfied and we got a satisfaction index score (SIS) of 9/10 from the customer and peers.
April 24, 2022

Oracle Linux is Here and Its Here to STAY!!

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Linux is a very good and useful combination of the stability of Rhel and support for Oracle Databases. Our organisation uses an application and a database combo that we offer to the client but after the inclusion of Oracle Linux into our infrastructure, the provision and the operation cost are reduced significantly. So I would recommend using Oracle Linux when you are using multiple on-premises DB servers and want to move to a more secure, organised, and fast operating system.
March 17, 2022

Works as good as it was sold to us.

Frederico Roier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Frederico Roier
DBA
Politec (Government Relations, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I only work with Oracle databases, so I believe that my experience will be limited to the universe in which Oracle Linux can be used, initially with its primary use being in databases, I can strongly recommend it for this use without restrictions, except when used in Exatada where the installation of the Zabbix agent is not recommended, compromising the monitoring of the environment.
March 02, 2022

Replace Solaris Unix with Oracle Linux

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Linux is recommended for low-cost applications that do not require much technical support. Oracle Linux is ideal for standalone servers in a highly distributed environment with scalability, high performance, and secure needs. Oracle Linux should be used if you wish for easy setup and solid core software requirements. Oracle Linux is definitely recommended if Oracle Database is already used and other Oracle products allow further optimization features.
February 21, 2022

Edge of Oracle Linux

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle is well suited for Oracle database that provides security and scalability. This is not appropriate as a lot of standard packages like graphics required the installation of new packages.
February 01, 2022

Ready to run databases in Oracle

Melissa Hallam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Melissa Hallam
Game Developer
AppLovin (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
it's an amazing OS to run Oracle stuff, we use it to run Oracle databases and children right now, but soon it could start to be used as a relief to CentOS in other regions of our building. One perfect detail that is easily overlooked and that I especially like is that it comes pre-built for updates, so you don't have to guess and change Yum's settings.
January 29, 2022

Advantages of Oracle Linux

kibrom Haftu✔ | TrustRadius Reviewer
kibrom Haftu✔
Senior IT and System Auditor
Lion International Bank S.C. (Banking, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As a result of the migration from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Linux, overall application performance was improved significantly. Oracle Enterprise Linux is pretty much based on the Red Hat Linux code, although it receives faster and more regular updates from Oracle. They have better security configurations. However, it is also missing a lot of packages that are usually available in other distributions.
January 17, 2022

The power of Linux

Eram Fatema Sayed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eram Fatema Sayed
Systems Engineer
Tata Constancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s best suited for humongous business applications such as in the banking sector where we have data flow from all directions and thorough [management] is necessary to ensure [the] business is up and running. Although multiple container technologies are now working hard to acquire leadership in software, oracle is constantly upgrading and customizing itself to give the end-users the right luxury of working in [a] fast-paced environment.
January 13, 2022

Oracle Linux

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Linux is better in a situation where we need to automate some processes as for example run stored procedures, transfer files by sftp and with this we can use shell script, don't see any situation where we could not use Oracle Linux, maybe if some application does commands over a different platform as Windows.
January 03, 2022

Oracle Linux review

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Linux will be good if the application you're running on top of it is from Oracle or certified to run on it. if your company has a good support plan/contract with Oracle if you don't have the above two points, then don't use it.
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