--- title: Oracle Linux Reviews meta_title: 'Oracle Linux Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 348 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: 348 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-04' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Oracle Linux Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Operating Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/operating-system) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 348 ## About 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. ## Oracle Linux Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **reliable stability** of Oracle Linux, making it an ideal choice for enterprise-level workloads. (14 reviews) - Users value the **RHEL compatibility** of Oracle Linux for its easy migration and excellent performance in familiar environments. (12 reviews) - Users highlight the **strong compatibility** of Oracle Linux with Oracle software, enhancing enterprise performance and reliability. (8 reviews) - Users value the **regular updates** of Oracle Linux, enhancing security and ensuring smooth, uninterrupted operations. (8 reviews) - Users value the **reliability** of Oracle Linux, praising its stability and performance for mission-critical workloads. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **free access** to updates and support, enjoying the benefits of Oracle Linux's affordability. (7 reviews) - Users value the **enterprise-grade security** of Oracle Linux, ensuring reliable and stable operations in critical systems. (7 reviews) - Users commend the **exceptional speed and efficiency** of Oracle Linux, optimizing their experience and performance. (7 reviews) - Users find Oracle Linux incredibly **easy to install and set up** , enhancing their workflow without hassle. (6 reviews) - Easy Setup (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users express concern over the **lack of support** , making troubleshooting and learning more difficult compared to other distributions. (14 reviews) - Users find the **high cost** of enterprise support for Oracle Linux burdensome, particularly for small organizations. (8 reviews) - Users find the **limited software options** of Oracle Linux restrictive, complicating integration with non-Oracle tools. (8 reviews) - Users find the **poor UI/UX** of Oracle Linux frustrating, impacting ease of use and satisfaction levels. (4 reviews) - Users express concern over **slow updates** with Oracle Linux, impacting the overall responsiveness and user experience. (4 reviews) - Users find the **usage difficulty** of Oracle Linux challenging, particularly for newcomers facing a steep learning curve. (4 reviews) - Apple Limitations (3 reviews) - Unfriendly Interface (3 reviews) - Skill Requirements (2 reviews) - Users experience **update issues** with Oracle Linux, reporting bugs and slow repository performance that hinder usability. (2 reviews) ## Oracle Linux Reviews ### 1. One of the best Operating System for your VPS Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash K. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is one of the best Operating system for website hosting on vps server. It is easy to setup and you can find its commands online **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** smaller community support in comparision of ubuntu or centos server **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped my deploy aapanel on my vps ### 2. Best option for Oracle DBA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juliano R. | Database Specialist, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is the most optimized OS for using Oracle Database, the most tuned kernel for AFD, and, by default, the best tuned for database performance. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux support is no longer free for those who purchase Oracle Database Enterprise, it requires a separate contract. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It drastically reduces unavailability problems for those with Oracle Database and performs excellently. ### 3. Excellent software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amaan K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** A major advantage of Oracle Linux is the method with which the operating system can be updated **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing all good but Oracle does not have access to source code for Red Hat Extended Update Support **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** By solving my problems ### 4. Stable operating system **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush J. | Intern , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux has a strong focus on security, with features like SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) and auditing capabilities. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Limited desktop support is primarily focused on server and enterprise environments, and may not have the same level of support for desktop environments. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linux is optimized for performance, with features like kernel optimizations and memory management. ### 5. Best OS for enterprise servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franky W. | Database Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is stable, robust and innovative! It is compatible with RHEL, but offers much more like online patching and it is open source. Community support is great and has good amount of free updatable RPMs. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not sure if there is something I don't like about it. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our company to run multiple applications, middletier and databases. It is the best OS for running Oracle Database. ### 6. ORACLE LINUX REVIEW **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** venkatesh b. | software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** ORacle is free to use and easy to share. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The repositories are seem to be on the slower side. It is little bit slower. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduces primarily the cost factor. ### 7. Its stable and preloaded with oracle software's. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hammad H. | Oracle DBA | Application Apps DBA | Middleware Admin , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's preloaded with the package and rpm required for Oracle products. It's stable and compatible with Oracle and non-oracle products. Oracle Linux also supports virtualization via OLVM, which is a great add-on. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** GUI is not much attractive and straightforward. The installation screen looks too complex. It should be simple, or it should be divided into more pages. Sometime installation seems bit confusing. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux is most stable and preloaded with Oracle RPM and Package. It will save your time and effort. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running a production Database and ERP on Oracle Linux and using it in R&D. It gives us a sense of more security, high performance, and great support. ### 8. Good alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Oracle cloud users. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saravan K. | Priniciple Support engineer, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is a very reliable and very secure operating system. It has the best security feature called Ksplice, and we can apply security patches without rebooting the server. We have seen Oracle Linux being of stability and uptime. Oracle charges low cost compared to other distros. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There aren't many things to dislike about it, except that Oracle Linux is only available in the Oracle cloud and not in the public cloud, so we can't use it in other cloud environments. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the Ksplice security function, we can apply fixes to the server without having to reboot it. ### 9. Linux is Best choice **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KISHAN P. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use and configuration for java and oracle technologies is much more comfortable. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing to dislike about this. It has very confined boundary fro certain use cases so you have to go beyond some limits **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It is very efficient and good OS. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kernal configuration is very easy and handy. ### 10. Review on Oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam M. | Product Evangelist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It has to notch compatiblity with centos and RHEL which ease its integration.It has n number of features. It is very easy to implement and user friendly which increases the frequency of user and the best part is they provide premimum customer support. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There are some open source packages which is not compatible with oracle linux and they have less focus on open source forums. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to run my applications which helps in my day to day routine jobs. ### 11. Make PC with ORACLE LINUX **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aman K. | softwarer Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** -Based on Linux kernel , a stable,reliable, and scalable OS -Primarily used for deploying and running Oracle Databases -Also very useful in managing operating systems, web servers traffic serviellance etc. -Provide Smooth and efficient workflow system **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** One improvement is that it provide much like closed nature of system and Oracle is pushing towards cloud computing Maintaining this OS behind firewall is cumbersome process Support process is not good Sometimes solution is not user friendly **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Currently using Oracle ERP for that we have to use Oracle Linux -Provide efficient solutions and increase the productivity and business performance is also increasing. ### 12. A comprehensive open source solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry E. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's easy to adjust to this Linux, and it's integration with Oracle Database software and VirtualBox is handy. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Honestly, just the price for support services. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a solution that allows for standalone Oracle database solutions from OS to software. ### 13. Robust Database Provider for Critical Business Operations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Having a dedicated operating system that can also be used for free with power of linux is a very exciting combination for database provider for critical business operations. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing much to complain to be honest, if you go for the free option which is without their support, it is quite a lot you get for the free price tag. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Setting up Oracle Database on a normal operating system can be a hit or miss. It can be complicated to setup on linux especially when you are not familar with firewalls and gettings things aligned without shooting yourself in the foot and leaving a security hole in your configuration. ### 14. Oracle Linux: Not Just a Clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shekhar R. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** 1 Security. 2 Reliability. 3 Performance. 4 Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux , so stable. 5 Affordable. 6 Available in variety of Edition. 7 Easy to Manage. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** 1 Cost. 2 Support. 3 Features limited to specific editions. 4. lacking Integration with other oracle products 5. Does not have many third party application. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost-effectiveness: variety of licensing options to fit your budget. Security: protectecting your data & systems from attack. Reliability. Performance. ### 15. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan S. | President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The platform and software have huge architecture and I appreciate the system presentation and the technology is great. The speed of the system is much better than competitors. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I do not like the high cost. It could integrate better and offer better small enterprise software services etc. Expand the and update software for free would be great. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving our small enterprise solutions via our existing iot system the benefits are higher revenues making us more productive increasing our business operations. ### 16. Review for Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deep T. | Senior Legal Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** To update the kernel Live without having it reboot, which is attractive for business that wants a little downtime. Amazing. You can run graphical Linux apps on Oracle Linux. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It does not claim 100% bug-to-bug compatibility with RHEL. If one wants a support contract, then it is chargeable. Moreover, it uses its own UEK rather than standard one. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nice alternative to centOS and it is free to use, nice UI and easy to use. It helps to handle the visualization, development and management of cloud-related applications. ### 17. Sr System Admin **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** With Oracle Linux we have a utility ksplice which helps us patch Oracle Linux servers without downtime. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** No downsides found till now to present here. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** with Oracle Linux we can patch the server without any downtime. ### 18. My Professional experience with Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil k. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is a cost effective and hight performing choice for modern infrastructure or consoling database instances. It is highly reliable secure and cloud ready Operating system. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** With respect to Operating system I don't have any cons as of now. Sometimes it's hard to get support from Oracle support team and apart from that there are no issues with respect to Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is offering enhanced security and high performance. It is giving advantage of having of zero downtime patching of servers which inturn maintaining 100% UPTIME of our applications. ### 19. Better than ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav K. | Senior software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I personally feel it is much more better than redhat linux. It has all the falvour what you have seen in typical linux. And its cheaper with better support quality. All the commands are very similar to redhat linux plus they are offering this on oracle cloud and ready to move our existing physical servers on oracle cloud, which is great **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing is there that i dislike. Product is good. Sometimes it is hard to get hold of support team then we have to escalate it to the sales team to get our issue resolved. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to use linux and the budget crunch is there. So oracle helped us achieve what is required for business and pre-support service is excellent. All the commands, looks and feel is very much similar to redhat linux, plus they helped us move our existing infrastructure to oracle cloud which is fabulous. ### 20. Best linux distro **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno M. | Software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is fast, easy and intuitive to use. If you are using another linux distro on cloud, you should definitely try this one. I was able to get comfortable within a week. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Since I use it on the cloud (console), it can be frustrating (like every console). The documentation is awesome and helps with those little issues you face while you are still learning how to use the console. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to use the Oracle Free Cloud tier; with Oracle Linux, I could install the MySQL database that I needed without any issues, connect from my windows computer and be ready to work. ### 21. Alternate OS to replace the CentOS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thiruppathi V. | Staff Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is one of the best alternatives for CentOS, which was discontinued last year. We can easily convert the existing CentOS workload to Oracle Linux seamlessly. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I don't see anything to dislike about the current Oracle Linux OS, which met all production workloads. If the basis support price is reduced, then it would be very competitive in the market; Oracle may consider this . **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Usually, when we switch from one Linux distro to another distro in Linux, it is painful with the conversion process and issues. But Oracle provided a custom script which works efficiently to convert from CentOS to Oracle Linux ### 22. A fantastic Operating System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen Zak P. | Head Operations (Corporate & BPO), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It has all the features required for operating any application on your laptop or desktop. The best thing about it is that it is virus free and has all the updates required when wanted. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Some applications do not work on it entirely as on windows; for example and music software Audacity do not work the way it works on windows. This needs to be upgraded. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have no clue about the problems Oracle Linux is solving currently because I am not using Linux as an operating system on my PC. Maybe I will switch to Linux Mint for my musical software in the future. ### 23. My experines with Oracle linux has been well. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin M. | Network Admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Linux's open-source capability has helped our organization deploy the Rise Vision Application. Having to pay for licenses for Windows would have increased our expenses and decrease our Yearly Budget. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The only notable downside of Linux is the learning curve associated with moving to it from a background in Windows. This has led me to have to take time out on my own to learn and understand the system. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linux has solved the problem of providing a low-cost operating system to run and manage the Rise Vision Application. This has allowed our department to stay within budget and maximize our funding for other projects. ### 24. Secure and reliable flavour of vanilla linux os **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vaibhav s. | Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Integration between Oracle Linux with other OCI products is excellent. Oracle Linux does good resource(CPU,RAM) management. The best thing why we started using Oracle Linux is the security and reliability We have moved our resources to oracle Linux due to its ability to work with high workload **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Licensing costs associated with each instance add up to your cloud bill. Till the number of users who are using Oracle Linux is less. So you wont find much of help online if you are troubleshooting the issue The user interface is not up to the notch **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can achieve good performance with our workloads securely and reliably. Our impression on our customers has improved because of using oracle Linux for our workloads Oracle Linux solves Security Reliability Performance ### 25. Oracle Linux offers high performance, compatibility with RHEL, and integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinoth S. | Blockchain Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** High performance, Compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Its good product but It has Commercial support costs **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux aims to address performance, compatibility, security, and support needs of organizations, especially those using Oracle products. The integration with Oracle hardware and software, enhanced security features, Ksplice technology, and commercial support options ### 26. Oracle Linux is a great platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is very fast, lot of customization etc. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not every application is supported on the platform **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better security than Windows Fast and convenient Less RAM consume Run a lots of security applications etc. ### 27. Data Update **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arif M. | Sr Store Incharge, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to serach the report. and collect the data with proper date and time **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** On oracle you will not find anything that you dont like **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Repaort collection from data base. ### 28. Oracle linux is a great OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav K. | Lead Software Engineer-I : Informix Product Support, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is the best OS so far i have used in my entire carrier. It is almost same as redhat linux and you also get a same feel like you are using redhat linux. The best part of oracle linux is their support team which is far better than redhat support. And moreover its cheaper and we are also planning to use oracle cloud computing for future business plan. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There is nothing which i dislike about this product. Even the support team is way ahead than RHEL. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Earlier we were using Redhat Lunux which is costlier than oracle linux. Even the support team is way better than redhat linux. Even as a future we are planning to use oracle cloud for our business. Their sales people come to our office and execute the architecture for our organisation ### 29. High performance and secure working environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rana Adnan A. | Chief Information Security Officer - CISO, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux supports virtualization, easy management for hybrid and multi- cloud environments. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** A composite solution having all the features for smooth business operations so no dislike as of now. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud and Multicloud environment scalability while ensuring and safety and security for both. ### 30. Oracle Linux for Enterprise **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sahil G. | QA Cybersecurity Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is very useful for long-term usage because of its pricing plan and it is very cost-effective as compared to other cloud VM providers plus oracle linux is very good for development and production purpose. Oracle Linux is general purpose OS so we can use it as per our requirements **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is good but as compared to other vendors oracle doesn't provide so much add-ons services as compare to other vendors this will specifically apply for production usage for development purposes or use oracle Linux in production with customization that it is good **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux is very simple to use because it doesn't contain complex configuration and it is very flexible to use in various use cases plus cost is also good for long term ### 31. Open source OS as it should be **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** full control to add/remove needed software, free, etc **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Many needed accessories are missing in the base version **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing base operating systems ### 32. Free tier. Optimized performance from OS level. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mutaz (معتاز) M. | Lead Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Since the OS is designed specifically for running a database instance and its services, everything is more streamlined, robust, reliable and the performance is as good as it gets. Adding the fact that its essentially free and you only pay for support makes it an ideal choice for SME. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** If you plan on running many services on a single server that does not have support for Linux, you don't have a choice but to virtualize Oracle Linux or go for the Windows version of Oracle. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Whether you are an SME or a large enterprise, using Oracle Linux has many advantages being affordable (free if you can manage it in-house) and scalable for a variety of environments. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Oracle Linux instead of the Windows version of Oracle has greatly reduced the system resources required for the same processing. Transactions simply get done much faster. Given the robust nature of Linux vs Windows, the downtime is almost none existant. ### 33. Enterprise and Stable Operating System ( Oracle Linux ) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed S. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Following are the below points. 1) Easy availability to download from Oracle Offical website. 2) Runs with good stability and lesser know kernel bugs or crashes. 3) Easy patching, patch availability is also easy. 4) Availability of ksplic is an awesome feature for patching without downtime upgrades. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Following are downsides. 1) Support license cost 2) Additional subscription required to get errartas and for quick support requests. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Enterprise tech companies can consider Oracle Linux without a second thought if you are looking to host Oracle Database, Oracle Linux works like charm with Oracle DataBase. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Well tested by the Oracle development team on kernel bug fixes. 2) With well-tested OS, lesser-known issues from OS bugs perspectives. 3) On-time addressed security patch availability from Oracle repos. ### 34. very good and smooth **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony C. | system graduate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** that can be used for the most cost-effective and integrated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure operating environment. it is multifunctional, it supports all the functions of a server, it can run on multiple operating systems **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** incompatibility and complexity has an approach to keywords similar to the cobol structure, its use is limited to a specific program domain it has a domain-specific declarative language that is limited. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** is solving problems with the database help with the relational model users view data in tables with rows/columns format. complete security in the production and test environment and backup management. ### 35. very securte operating system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdul G. | System Administrator, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** we are using it for the last 10 years it is very secure and very reliable very easy to manage we have all servers installed on Oracle Linux like Oracle database Oracle application and Squid server. Very secure and very easy to mange just minimal install than yum install and update we have premium support so we are very happy to use it . **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** still not face any problem we have support is Awesum 24/7 no issue **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** please use this software we are very happy and very easy to manage very secure no need extra hardware this is one of the best Operating system **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** very secure and up to date compatible with every database and many many futures are and very reliable before this we had a lot of problems no need to extra hardware just install on desktop PC ### 36. Review for oracle linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** infant r. | Lead vmware admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle linux have is the enterprise linux which have the proper support , so in case of any critical issues we can get the support. And also the patches will be released often for critical bugs & easy to administer , most probably it gives better performance with oracle DB. Overall it's a nice OS platform to work with. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Obviously the price of oracle OS , not only OS support , any oracle product is costly which cannot be afford by all companies.And the compatibility with the hardware vendors. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle linux is one of the best OS which i can recommend as the second & the first will be RHEL. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Especially performance issues are solved in oracle linux , it have great document with clear explanation on how to fine tune the performance & works great with oracle DB ### 37. Reliable, adaptive, stable and fully prepared for immediate deployment. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Not only does it arrive with pre-configured and pre-optimized packages for a direct installation of the database, but it is a product that is already within the Oracle architecture, which makes integration with other platforms of the same type more straightforward. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Perhaps customer support should focus more on end-to-end service than on technical knowledge about the product. From the user's point of view, I would say that increasing storage would make space management much easier. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its easy functionality in the interface and the ability to come with pre-configurations allows more time savings, which in this case is completely precious in the aspect of reducing downtime. ### 38. Oracle Linux review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surya P. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** High reliability and performance . Secured feel to work with Oracle products. It will improve security, reduce downtime, simplify operation and much useful in our daily task. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing to dislike . I like to live in open source. I feel comforts to work with Oracle. It's user-friendly and gives accuracy in work. No more points for dislike the Oracle. I feel useful to work with Oracle. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It delivers virtualization, management, automation, and easy to mange support offering. Supports many tools for cloud native platform . **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining web applications and dockeriztion. The benefits are keep up with compliance, manage security threats and mitigate against vulnerabilities much faster ### 39. Excellent open source linux OS to try all related work. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KELKAR ANUP J. | PhD Scholar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The easy desktop features. Simple step to install the OS on the machine. Can dual boot my system with windows. Have excellent features compared to Ubuntu OS. Software Installation on it is also easy. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The total ISO size is large, needs more time to download. More easy features to handle API calls need to be added. More mobile-friendliness is required so more easily can be integrated with mobile apps also. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Install it first then try. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have my complete Oracle database in it, I even tried to have MongoDB and Twitter installed for my Ph.D. work. I am currently working on machine learning and deep learning model. ### 40. I am using Oracle linux from last 10 years. this is very stable and reliable OS. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khurram Khalid B. | Unit Lead Databases & MIS|VP, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's very stable for databases and secure. It's also easy to use and has good control via the command line also GUI compatible with oracle database so easy to handle. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I am using this product for the last 10 years So far I didn't dislike anything. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It's easy to use and very stable as compare to other OS in market. It's security features are also amaging and I found their support is one of the best. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stability of databases. Bugs control. It's also very good in its security features.More compatible with oracle database. less effort is required to set parameters. ### 41. It's fast and lightweight on your hardware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony C. | Blogging content writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's responsive and makes older equipment breathe again. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not all the regular windows software will be available for you on this platform but don't worry because there are thousands of free open source versions available. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's making otherwise old or obsolete machines work well again thus saving money ### 42. A Robust Operating System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siril J. | Associate Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It provides great performance to the Oracle products running on the system. For instance, Oracle DB performs muh better on the OEL platform. Compared to other vendor's Linux, OEL is used in setting up the whole Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Managing of the repository is a bit of pain in OEL as compared to its competitors. The support from Oracle needs to be better as REDHAT provides better technical support for RHEL. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Its a great platform for running Oracle workloads and the support will be much more cost effective while combined with other Oracle products **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** OEL is very useful if you're having a hardware Infrastructure from Oracle. Runninf OracleDB on OEL has evidently increased the performance. And the enterprises can have cost savings if they're running pn Oracle hardware with OEL and OracleDB as they'll be paying less for the suppy ### 43. Oracle Linux is best os platform for Kubernetes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran D. | Senior Software QA Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I have been using oracle linux for years but I have started using oracle linux 8.5 for deployment of kubernetes master and worker nodes. Speed and simplicity I found it easy to use and faster than many other os platforms. U can also resolve dependancies simply using yum. So with docker containers and kubernetes this works best and its my experiance which is talking. So go ahed and spinup ec2 oracke linux instances and get your handon. Also it works magic on onpremise setups. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I think there are very few downsides of using oracle linux. So go ahed and use it. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am hosting many enterprise as well as light weight applications using containers and kubernetes on top of oracle linux. Which is very much faster and easy to use. ### 44. Senior Associate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak C. | Oracle apps Dba, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** There are many things that i like about it. I worked in various OS including AIX, Solaris and Window. But Oracle Linux is best among them in terms of the managing system. Let me summarize the best thing about this - Easy to manage - Easily availability of RPM - Best tuning/Management tool - Best oracle database performance - Support in an engineered system **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There is nothing I dislike about it. If it's in my power, I would like to scrap all other LINUX flavored OS and use only Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were installing all applications and Database in Oracle Linux . Database version include Oracle 11g,12c ,19c and 21c. Installed all sorts of oracle applications in Oracle Linux box including EBS , Fusion middleware ,Hyperion stack etc ### 45. Review for Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aashish S. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It delivers a secure and a high-performance environment. The benefits include virtualization ,management , orchestration and automation. Its easy to use and learn. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** As oracle is trying to correct a lot of issues and bugs from the previous versions of oracle linux. Apart from a few minor ignorable gliches. i found Oracle Linux to be useful and on the money **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I believe that Oracle Linux is worth giving a try. I would like to recommend to all my professional colleagues to use oracle Linux in their environment and hel achive a better infrastructure as a whole. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have worked with oracle Linux in the past and I have solved a lot of problems on the on-prem server like automation for known issues. The adaptability and ease of use helped me achieve all the tasks fluently ### 46. Secure and Intelligent Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samieullah K. | Freelance Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's very user-friendly. Well managed and organized structure. Update, upgrades, and other software installations are very easy, reliable, and secure. Additional tools like KSplice provide great help to run systems smoothly. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I didn't found yet anything very serious that someone can dislike in this system. There are many tools that help to configure the system which was not available before. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Linux flavor provided by Oracle is best among all others in the market with respect to almost all aspects of the product like the ease of use, ease of setup, ease of getting support from the vendor, and much more. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running corporate business-level software is always a challenge. Here comes the key product with solutions, the Oracle Linux. We get almost everything parts of this operating system which requires running any big software like DBs, ERP, Web Servers, etc. ### 47. Oracle linux **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narasimman S. | Principal Test Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** We use oracle linux in our enviroment for a decade , it performs better with oracle database , easy knowledge base. Best support team who works 24/7 to troubleshoot. Available for on-prem & in cloud. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not compatible with all hardware vendors , integration with other database wil be bit difficult. The major dislike is the cost , it's not affordable by small cap/mid cap companies. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Zero downtime patching feature , performance will be good with oracle DB. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** System Uptime will be maintained , runs excellently with oracle database which gives excellent performance. Zero downtime automated patching will be achieved in oracle linux environment. ### 48. Oracle Linux is excellent operating system for production implementation. It has all required libs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Birendra S. | Associate Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is excellent operating system because it has all required package and libraries to implement in production with best security features. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I don't have any disappointed point in OEL. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I would recommend to others to use Oracle Linux to make life ease in IT field. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a required package and libraries and setting for installing Oracle Database core and RAC, no need to download from other vendors that's the great features ### 49. Oracle Linux Database working in prefect tuning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suvendu S. | CIO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Earlier I used Oracle Linux 10g on RHL and it works in perfect tune, the memory management portion of oracle work so perfectly that on a high peak usage time user does not realize any issue. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I did not find any dislike in Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Oracle Linux, we had another database in the windows platform which gives a huge utilization issue sometimes it consumes so much memory that the windows server itself gets hung and we need to restart the server from time to time may be regularly to overcome the issue. But after Oracle Linux, it works perfectly and we will no need to restart the server for 2 years. ### 50. Why we use Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Mubashir H. | Assistant Manager Database, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** User Friendly and built-in packages/rpm especially use for Oracle Databases / Application. Further, Its processing is also fast as compare to other operating systems **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I haven't experienced anything which I dislike in OEL. It's quite easy to use as well. 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