--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. Very fast and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I have been using Oracle Linux machines from the last few years, they are fast , robust and reliable. There have been continuous improvements with newer version and releases . **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** In few versions the startup could be faster . This could be one area they can work on . I don't know if that is dependent on the underlying Hardware. I belive they are on the right track with decent improvemnts or the years **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running database and application servers that have heavy workloads. I have used this software on Engineered systems as well. Database systems were both OTLP and OLAP . ### 2. Oracle Linux Flexible and advantageous **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is more flexible and is much faster to use . It is Highly Available and has zero downtime patching znd apart from that Cloud native tools were included at no extra cost **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** You need specialized skills to work on this like Vi editor, shell scripting, contains in depth system utilities and open-source code. And since this is based on CUI commands needs to be aware **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It resolves many activities like Identifying Binaries, software Packages that are required and we can unzip the patches and deploy it easily. It is also easy to debug using common Linux commands ### 3. Oracle Linux - An Overview **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd Nizam P. | Technical Specialist (Linux), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like the availability of applications related to Oracle where we can use all the features offered by Oracle to meet business requirements **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I dislike that Oracle Linux has issues with network sharing devices with other OS like Samba and NFS **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved the storage related issues with databases while using Oracle Linux . I was able to run application smoothly on Oracle Linux ### 4. Software packages interface not able to download and install the packages properly **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Network interface where it is very easy to configure the network. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** GUI of oracle Linux is slow and it takes more resources to run smoothly even when it is run on high end server. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Running oracle Linux is same experience you get with other Linux distribution but GUI experience is still not smooth as you expect. CLI version is best recommend. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux is used for the Primavera EPPM P6 application. ### 5. Oracle linux review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akilan R. | Associate devOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** reliable and secure os , consist of two kernals , Also have hybrid cloud tools support . **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** No dislike since i love to live in linux environments **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We will monitor the db servers with this platform . More secured business applications running above the os , supports cloud native tools and platforms ### 6. One of the best linux os **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthick U. | Release Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Provides easy access to various rpm. Easy to install and work. Highly secure. Very good documentation. Timely updates/patches for rpms. Very good support **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There is not a single thing that I dislike about Oracle linux **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am dealing with application deployments related to weblogic and tomcat. Also build applications related to SFTP. OS is highly secure ### 7. Stable OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Patching and we didn't fave any performance issue **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Server is stable and nothing I dislike in the OS **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Good and stable OS with very less chances of performance issues **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance is good ### 8. Stable Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farooq S. | Senior System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Best for Oracle DB. very stable operating system. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing. Its very good flavour of linux. We are using it on two servers in our office. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for Oracle Database. ### 9. its reliable OS to be use on production environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Waqas A. | Senior Manager-Enterprise Systems, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's disk management features like LVM (Logical Volume Manager). **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** From my experience, there is nothing that I dislike. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Every day to day problems like disk management, os management etc ### 10. Oracle Linux is perfect for transactional application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kashif j. | Database Administrator Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Scalability, ability to host high transactional application **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Some time complexity is too much which need vendor intervention **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** High availability , scalability ### 11. Oracle Linux for System and DBA Administrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roma P. | Implementation Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** OEL provides all the necessary yum libraries needed by any System ADMINISTRATOR or DBA for installation of any oracle related products **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Can provide default option for GUI or Desktop installation **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the problems related to oracle products installation and provides seamless integration and installation options for any products ### 12. Linux admistrator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sahadevaiah S. | Senior Linux System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Imporving technical skills always toward career **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** lazyness, i can't get sleep without learning anything in the day. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** ORacle linux documenetation is really helpfull. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** kernel patching, patching, rpm, NFS and lvm, cluster management. ### 13. Great to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use. The interface is fantastic. Every functionality is working the same as other operating systems. Easy to manage security and other perspectives. Recommended. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Zombie process needs to kill by the operating system itself. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Formatting the operating system disks using bash script for Oracle database deployment. ### 14. Oracle Linux: Best Suited for DBA **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh S. | Senior Software Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Very easy to install and work with. Best Linux distro for handling oracle database. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** When you compare oracle Linux with other it's pretty much same but with good capability to handle database. Although installation of packages from centralised location is not that good. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation and cloud ### 15. ORACLE LINUX REVIEW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kanika S. | Sr DBA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Full control Secured firewall control setup **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** GUI Too much Security need root access to do anything **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Fully secured **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** server related issue, VM related issue. cyber attack related issue. I like the security benefits of this. ### 16. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeev J. | Database Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The patching process is best. Without downtime, we can able to control maintenance work. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** All good we didn't find any issue. Best technical support **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Best support compare to other Unix flavor environments. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting Database services, application ### 17. Best and free database operating system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vinoth k. | Technical Lead -Infra, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** We use oracle Linux to replace our old windows database servers, It is easy to handle and compatible with all oracle applications. Since it is free to open source even startups can also make use of it. We do have a community where we can post our doubts In. The advantage of Linux is it does have multi-user support with windows we do not have this. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** One should have the more technical knowledge to operate this. It does need a learning curve but it is totally worth having it. It does have some bugs while updating the patches. Since it lacks GUI support it is not easy for beginners to handle. They can improve customer service a bit. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** This is only for Linux-skilled personals who have prior experience in Linux commands. Once we learn those commands it is quite easy to handle this. It is way more secured than windows and it is also much cheaper. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do use it for our database servers to manage our data. Since it is cheaper than windows server and security-wise Linux stands out of crowd ### 18. Excellent Platform to Build Software Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanka G. | Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to Understand and Learn. It is useful in solving many computer science related problems. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux does not have any flaws which is noticeable. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Since it is open-source, secure and reliable, I would like to recommend everyone to use Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle DB related issues. ### 19. OL-Rev **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Based in RPM which is easy to keep updated, also you can use Centos repos and the subscriptions are cheapest than Redhat. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** In version 8.x OCI depends on what Redhat/IBM is doing with the distribution. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The support is a great point to evaluate in case you use it. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** like any other Linux distribution, you can do everything, but the benefits are related whit the costs, for example, the bundled with weblogic and oracle db. ### 20. Oracle Linux - Out of the box **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** As our website is experiencing high traffic on weekdays, Oracle Linux makes it possible to manage the traffic without burning out the system resources. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** As we are thriving to be the best Linux distribution in the market, we need to exceed the expectations of the customers and deliver a bug and issue-free OS. This has been archived to a great extent. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** NA **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of bugs were reported earlier which have been fixed by the community like XFS issues, Kernel issues. These have been resolved. ### 21. Oracle linux - a short overview **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shaik H. | Oracle Database Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like that oracle linux supports application which uses different databases like oracle and it runs smoithly **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I dislike that there only some option to configure network devices on oracle linux like samba nad nfs services **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved problems related to managing application databases which handles all the processes with precise calculation ### 22. Good experience with Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudheer M. | Oracle Apps DBA Consultant , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use and configure and use it is very help full **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Somes times reqired rpm won't avilable to use **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It is good to use **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to configure ERP application and database with ease ### 23. Oracle Linux is good OS for Server system and desktop **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chamnes P. | Database Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Stable Kernel and fast response for service processing, database server or application server. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** need support, slow bootup when in GUI mode **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** You need to install the OS from e-delivery **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** running weblogic server application ### 24. Oracle Linus Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad S. | Technology Lead (Oracle-SUN), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** RedHat kernel UEK Kernel easy implementation **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** some support related issues some support related issues **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** UEK, KVM patching easy upgrades ### 25. Oracle Linux review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's free to download.. No license cost,best suitable for oracle database..you can download the ISO images of binary distribution for free.. Support is also available.. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It requires the proper understanding such as vi editor ,shell scripting Knowledge of system administration and database administration Possibility of root kit attacks **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** As it is open source you can easily switch to it.. Since Oracle and Red hat are involved it comes with a enterprise support Improved security and cost efficient **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it for keeping the database and backup of our web server.. The performance of our application server was slow as it was on a same server with application server.. After migration to oracle Linux the performance was quite good ### 26. Very good experience using oraclce linux. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad I. | Sr Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux already have some prerequisite for oracle. It's a plus point. It help a user for easy installation. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing special. I think everything is good. I hope oracle will add some features if needed in the future. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle designed Oracle Linux for Oracle Database, so that's the reason I am not facing a big problem. ### 27. Oracle Linux review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Solid linux distribution. Good graphical UI as well as terminal-based UI **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Behind in features compared to the open source distributions **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** nice production-quality linux distribution with full support **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** HA architecture implementations, very scalable ### 28. best OS in market in unix **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** the support and features oracle gives with its OS. performance is very good **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** some times oracle support is not good.but no issues in os **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it for all our applications and database servers. It performance very well. support given by oracle ia very good ### 29. Oracle Linux review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aravhindhan B. | Data Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** High performance , secured and reliable. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I love to live in Linux. I don't dislike Linux. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** High performance, high security, support and many tools for cloud native platforms. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Troubleshooting web application by analysing it's load memory and disk ### 30. Oracle Linux review Uttam **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Uttam M. | Senior Engineering Manager (BiG data, data Science and Cloud), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The cost and easy to launch features from Cloud platform itself. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I dislike the range of CPU and GPU combinations availables. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am running spark code on Oracle Linux cluster. ### 31. Oracle Linux was great!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sourav M. | Assistant Solution Integrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to install and very user friendly!! **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** it can be more light-weight and resource saving. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It is very user friendly , so will recommend users to install Oracle linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Am running kubernetes cluster on oracle linux. Packafge installation is quite easier. ### 32. Not a good Linux Distro **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** 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. **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. **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. ### 33. Oracle Linux one of the best OS Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghavendra K. | E, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's installation is easy and quick to configure.Thr other best thing is patching does not require reboot. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It needs better documentation and support for more open source packages . **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The downtime is minimised for users and developers which allows easy maintenance and patching . ### 34. I would recommend, Oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiva P. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Stability, kernal is stable and nice for Oracle products installation **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** GUI, did not feel comfortable but it is ok on high cpu **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux is good product I recommend to my customer **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using to install Oracle products ### 35. Oracle Linux- Security Oriented OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand S. | Full Stack Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Security Options in oracle is the best thing I loved **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Can make some improvements in ui and gui **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** This is the best for all who interested in investing for security **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly security and prevention of vulnerabilities ### 36. OracleLinux Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuj T. | Oracle Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to install and find Oracle rpm packages. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Can be more catchy to eyes. A bit like previous versions. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The new Oracle linux is easy to install and configure specially for Oracle DBA's. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring, working and troubleshooting oracle databases running on linux servers. ### 37. Complete OS optimized for DB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux works very well with Oracle DB **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing as such which I faced with oracle linux **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Its good to use with DB **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its more optimized for oracle DB and that solves the optimization issue for us. ### 38. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sakthivel M. | Technical Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Good at performance Orient and anyone can easily implement in their required environment, user friendly **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing much to describe in it, can be enhanced in per installed packages that was required for various software Installations **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Installing the packages before installing the required software packages ### 39. Open source Linux OS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rupinder K. | Alliances Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Cost effective support, ease of use best for oracle stack **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Best for oracle stack may not be very compatible with other products **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Ease of use **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Single point of contact for the entire stack . Timely resolution ### 40. Best Linux Distro **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiva Kumar P. | Sr DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Security threats handling, time to time updates, easy patching. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** it is knowns as DBA Linux one should have DBA knowledge to use it. Limited package support. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** A reliable platform for application deployments. ### 41. Oracle Linux is good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** We worked for SAP application & it was good . SAP on oracle linux is just like any other linux currently available in the market **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing .I don't think so .From SAP side we implemented complex application . It is running smooth. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you are running Oracle database on your SAP enviornment then it's best fit for you ### 42. Linux is an open door to all open sources technology. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faris A. | Senior System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Operating system and hardware stability. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing, all linux set are Properly set. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of them are in permission correction and size resetting ### 43. Very smooth and stable Linux flavour **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhrajyoti K. | Lead Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Package installation, user friendly and very fast **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Almost a clone of Redhat. Thus it must have something unique. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier installation of Oracle database and weblogic. Thus a tight integration with Oracle products. ### 44. Not very commonly used, although it's compatible with CentOS/RHEL. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** compatible with RHEL/CentOS. Had a strong and trusted engineering team to support it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** not very commonly used. Oracle Linux has not been adopted well in the industry. It's hard to introduce to other people than Ubuntu or RHEL. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked with Oracle Linux as it's technical analyst before. Never used Oracle Linux in production in other places. ### 45. It's good for hosting your oracle workloads **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The level of ease with which you can install the oracle product was amazing. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing much to dislike as it's RHEL inside.. it supports everything. But I feel it's a bit bulkier in size and slower in performance when compared to a vanilla centos or rhel **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have setup oracle RAC clusters with Oracle Linux.. its easier in this than in a centos or rhel machine ### 46. Best alternate for centOS "Oracle Linux" **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand S. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Found that Oracle Linux is providing similar features similar to centos. Performance is better because it is highly optimized. The kernel is tuned very well, the memory management is specifically excellent, so it makes for a very stable platform. Like more on security features. Linux is available in a number of easy to install packages that work well with Oracle databases. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It doesn't have any GUI. OL require some technical knowledge. Commands are changed when upgrade from OL 6 to OL 7. Oracle Linux is available in a number of easy-to-install packages that work well with Oracle databases. Oracle Linux has very less number of users than other versions, which has lack of outside help. Very less number of open community to dicuss topics. Ads-on like Oracle and Zabbix support are insufficient. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Should give a try to whoever is looking for opensource alternatives. I would recommend using it for Database Server. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** OL has good security features. Scalability of the system. Using Linux security hacks can be avoided. easy to install packages that work well with databases. Installation of security patches automatically without a kernel of the operating system. ### 47. Oracle Linux Best OS for Oracle Applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Its very easy to use for our oracle applications,Most secure and very easy to connect and resolve any issues related to applications,One of the Best OS that we are using for Oracle applications,One of the cheapest and best OS for enterprise applications and support most of Oracle applications **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** More graphical and vnc features needs to be added ,Should be more friendly to the Naive users,Need to introduce more tools which comes by default to the OS **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Excellent OS For Oracle Applications,very easy to use for Oracle Applications and other enterprise applications,Better than other OS such as Windows OS which is very costly and not easy to use compare to Linux **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our applications are well certified and compatible with the Oracle Linux and very easy to use and install our Oracle applications with Linux,One of the Best OS To use for Oracle Applications,Secure and easy to install and connect,easy to maintain ### 48. It streamline our infrastructure development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maitry S. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It improves security and lowers the cost. It also optimizes performance. It also improves scalability. Its open cloud network. Open source platform. Vast community. Easily avilable solutions. Highly efficient and effective solutions available. Easy installable with proper documentation. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It requires highly qualified technical administrators who are specialized in some skills set like shell scripting and vi editors. It doesn't have any GUI, which makes it hard for less qualified people to understand it. Because of lack of UI people don't preder to use it more compared to other open source platforms. Required some coding standards which needs to be followed. It require some technical knowledge. Not UI friendly which is why it has less users compared to other open source platform because it decrease interaction for non technical people. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Effective and highly efficient. It has good security which prevents some failures and hacks. Open-source platform. It Improves scalability and flexibility. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is supported by an oracle. It has good security, which lowers the cost and improves the performance of any system. It improves the scalability of the system. Using Linux security hacks can be avoided. It is an open-source platform that provides a big community. It has an extensive community, which is good at times to get better solutions. Efficiency is good, and that provides more solutions to it. ### 49. Oracle Linux is the best Linux based OS we have **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rinky K. | Operations Specialist 1, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** the most stable version of enterprise Linux offered by Oracle for virtualization purposes **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** kdump failing leads to wastage of time and effort **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploy enterprise solution on Oracle Linux ### 50. 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