--- title: Oracle Linux Reviews meta\_title: 'Oracle Linux Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 349 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Oracle Linux works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 349 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ubuntu](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ubuntu") Ubuntu 4.5/5(2,399) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Enterprise Linux](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Enterprise Linux") Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6/5(977) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) [ ![Windows 7](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Windows 7") Windows 7 4.2/5(903) ](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-7/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-linux/competitors/alternatives) # Oracle Linux Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Oracle Linux but has limited features. Are you part of the Oracle Linux team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Oracle](https://www.g2.com/sellers/oracle) Discussions [Oracle Linux Community](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-linux/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Zeynep Koch Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Foracle-linux%2Freviews%3Fpage%3D7) ## User Insights Average based on 349 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Oracle Linux Integrations (4) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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Nothing, this is not a good distribution of Linux in any shape, size or form. They take what works well in Linux and hide it behind layers of Oracle madness. It will act as a hypervisor, we thought would make our Oracle licensing easier; however it didn't work out that way it just added to the cost and complexity of the OS install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Oracle Linux? Oracle Linux has an overly complex install and licensing process combined with bad documentation. Every time we had to install a security patch or OS upgrade, it would turn into a battle. It provides nothing that RedHat and other Linux distros don't at a higher cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you? We had used it as a hypervisor in hopes it would allow us to comply with Oracle's many licensing requirements, which it did. However, we found we could do the same thing using VMware at a lower cost. We did find Oracle Linux to be a stable OS assuming you didn't try to make any changes to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/28/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Oracle Linux? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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