--- 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: '2026-07-17' 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 **enterprise-grade stability** of Oracle Linux, ensuring reliable performance for critical systems and applications. (14 reviews) - Users value the **RHEL compatibility** of Oracle Linux, ensuring a seamless transition and robust enterprise support. (13 reviews) - Users value the **regular updates** from Oracle Linux, enhancing security and system stability for enterprise applications. (9 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high compatibility** of Oracle Linux with Oracle databases and other services, enhancing their project efficiency. (8 reviews) - Users value the **enterprise-grade reliability** of Oracle Linux, ensuring stability and minimal downtime during operations. (8 reviews) - Users value the **enterprise-grade security** of Oracle Linux, ensuring reliable and stable operations in critical systems. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **free access** to updates and support, enjoying the benefits of Oracle Linux's affordability. (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 struggle with the **lack of support** and complex documentation, making Oracle Linux challenging, especially for beginners. (15 reviews) - Users experience a **high cost** for Oracle Linux support, limiting accessibility for smaller teams and individual users. (8 reviews) - Users note that the **limited software availability** makes it difficult to find necessary tools and support. (8 reviews) - Users criticize the **poor UI/UX** of Oracle Linux, noting a lack of user-friendliness and modern desktop experience. (4 reviews) - Users notice that **updates are slower** with Oracle Linux, which can impact their overall experience and satisfaction. (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) - Users find **limited customization** in Oracle Linux due to locked features and confusing support options for smaller teams. (2 reviews) - Skill Requirements (2 reviews) ## Oracle Linux Reviews ### 1. My review of Oracle Linux after my great experience using it for over 5 years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg W. | Technical Support Specialist , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I liked the GUI and the fact that Oracle Linux is very user friendly **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I wouldn't say I liked the cost of licenses **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Please give it a try **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the problem of where to host my food services database , the benefits os using Oracle Linux is that it is straight forward ### 2. This is a reliable operating system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joanne R. | Office Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like that Linux has been around a very long time and is a very stable system if the others are not right for you. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The product could use more advertisement, and I don't think a lot of people know what it is nowadays **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It's different but the same in many ways. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It doesn't have a lot of the preinstalled software that could be dangerous to compter health ### 3. Powerful Operating System for Enterprise use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anurag S. | Full-stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is open source and highly customisable. It is also free and uses lesser resources than windows. It is faster than Windows operating systems. It is also a very stable version of Linux when compared to other Linux distributions. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The user interface is not as good as the user interface provided by windows. Most of the features require you to enter commands instead of using a Graphical Interface like Windows. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Do go for it if you are looking for an enterprise Linux distribution **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Oracle Linux for business server hosting. Linux servers are cheaper than windows server and are more lightweight and fast when compared to other hosting solutions. ### 4. Best OS for Hybrid Cloud **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's zero downtime automated patching is very good feature **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It takes time to get feature upgrades, issue with bugs and patches while running **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is stable without sudden reboots and have better memory managment ### 5. Oracle Linux default OS for Oracle Applications and Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hassan M. | System Support Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle RPM and packages availability in OEL. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not going to dislike the product because of max features and supported packages availability but their should be guideline available when to start third party software installation like nay popup comes and guide to install required packages... **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** when to install any oracle database and applications it is recommended to use OEL instead of other OS environments. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux is default OS for Oracle Products as i have experienced to install Oracle Databases and Oracle application like Oracle EBS R12 (12.1.1) I have installed EBS using OEL 5.5 and its very useful for all Application related operation specifically the performance of Server is quite smooth than other OS. ### 6. Security and stability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tania B. | Backup Shift leader and Global Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The OS can be updated without having to reboot the system. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Graphical interface appearance is not so friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The best scenario for use is server uses like web services, microservices, network monitoring, databases, and websites. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is faster than Windows. ### 7. Handles alongside other distributions **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is a great benefit for you if you use Oracle db because Oracle supports this operating system primarily. Of course, since it is linux, it has many advantages over windows. But I think Suse is a more useful distro **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It's not as easy to manage as other distributions. It has its own kernel. You don't want to change too much **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I do not recommend using it except Database Server **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it as the operating system of Oracle DB servers ### 8. A platform for storing all of the software core database. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Govind S. | Teaching Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I just love using Linux , I actually get to know how the system works. Also it provides how secure I want to make my system. I love the complete OS of Linux as It feels like a strong secure database can be made. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There must be a complete tutorial present where one can learn quickly how to use linux. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Yes, I like to recommend others to use this product to get a first hand experience on this kind of Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** My organization buys license for various software and this can only run in Linux. Through scripting like Pearl, Tcl I run the software. ### 9. Linux! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harun Raşit S. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like linux for open source and secure! You can do what you want. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Some linux distrubutions is required technical information. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** If needed open source and minimum system requirements, Oracle Linux is for that. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing... ### 10. Linux review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satanik D. | IT Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Robust Freedom to use os at full capacity **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** exposure to vulnerability making it easy to attack if patches are not updated manually **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** If yoy genuinely want to use os full capacity linux is the way **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shell scripting. automation ### 11. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It offers enterprise class performance , security, reliability and serviceability. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It requires specialized skills and there are security holes of not configured correctly **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Go for a good training before using Oracle linux **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** With pre defined templates it scale up the database and apps development ### 12. Linux The Ultimate Distro **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** You can do anything and everything with the terminal.It have wide verity of distro like ubuntu,kali linux etc... all these distros have there on use and specs.The cost of linux machines are low compared to windows.The linux is also lite weight.The attack on Linux machines are low compared to windows.The linux have all the features required but it is little bit complex to use these features.The best thing about linux is its free!!.It can be used in pc,laptops, smartphones,iot devices ,embedded devices, mobile devices etc.. The pros of linux are: 1.Easy to install 2.Its free 3.Can distribute your changes in Linux to help others. 4.Stable and secure system **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The user interface is and user experience is little bit low in linux.So its not that easy to use it.The linux virtual machine are little bit cumbersome to handle.As the linux provide all the super power to the user may be the user can messup the system easy if he is not careful while usinh some commands. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** You can get so much of utilities and app.But the UX is not great. The Terminal is ultimate control.You can do everything **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The linux machinae can save the server bill to a grate extent as the cost of linux server are low compared to windows.The virus attack on linux machines is very low compared to windows. ### 13. Oracle Linux solving real world problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is the one of the best open source operating system we can customizing the things very effectively and efficiently in our work place **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Configuration take more timing with respect to other operating system **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are customizing the OS as we want to be functional in our organisation ### 14. In installation of application servers and tools for data analysis **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** With respect to other Linux platforms it does not make any difference. I don't see anything special about other Linux platforms. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It is not very friendly and above all it does not fully align with other Linux platforms. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Oracle Linux because it is the current version of my company and there is no other. It is used in Chatbot applications and data analysis. ### 15. Good for enterprise usage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Support for different things like docker in their enterprise support. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Good for those have experience with Gnome and other linux distros. UI is similar to Kali Linux (Gnome3). Not easy for people coming from windows background to use this at full potential **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Not good for daily usage. For enterprises it is good. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to integrate with oracle cloud and oracle database. Can be considered as One solution for enterprise. ### 16. Best OS I used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is easy to use it. Easy to maintain and handle. You can easily upgrade or degrade the resources. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Bit costly to use and manage. Bit on slow side . **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing integrations and shell scripts. ### 17. Oracle Linux in solving real world problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is the platform for user friendly its a very good operating system in both the sense for GUI( Graphical user interface) and for Portability ( Open source concepts) **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Complex command line scripts needs to be work **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Oracle Linux for installing and using our oracle software in both the sense as development and Adminstration ### 18. Interface is Best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** writing command is very colorful and easy to understanding difference between derive and directory **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** UI is not that much ok but still performance is also not that good. need to improve in performance. since it is oracle product so hope so they will update patch **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** doing practice for Linux cmd and it is very helpful ### 19. We use Oracle Linux every day OCI runs exclusively on Oracle Linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill S. | MGR Global Architect & Infrastructure, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Support for OEL is good but you have to get the right person on the other end of the ticket. We sometimes have to waste time while we wait to get to the right person. That right person is knowledgeable for our specific problem. I do like the dedicated support team we have from the account people that want to make our project a success. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Hard to get to a knowlegable person. The first people that get assigned a ticket seem to have a script for what they require you to collect and it feels like they invent things if you provide what they were looking for in advance. lie the SOSReport that every single ticket needs. They also require all the OCI ID's for every instance and ticket. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The best way to do Oracle Cloud (OCI). The dedicated team we have to make your project a success is a must. G2 NOTE: Your Searches are not working..... Above (Product Integrated) is JDE or JD Edwards wlll not return anything in my search. G2 NOTE: Below 3rd Party is Tech Mahindra **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux is the OS of choice in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle has much of it's automation based upon Oracle Linux. ### 20. Modern, reliable and safe! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricmari O. | IT Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like that it automatically manages the administration tasks, that is very compatible with many standards and that is flexible with the costs. I like that this super advanced so that the corrections detect the mistakes of a person, and that the work is well executed. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Normally he would have nothing to say but would mention that he is having a small flaw in regards to his mocker, and the support system **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** This software is very simple, nothing complex very easy to use, easy to handle. I recommend it because it has served us as an industry that goes on an ascent, for small tasks and also large ones, for a part of the business population, our duty is to evaluate everything, and this takes a ten out of ten. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, I have resolved to save time with this Software, because I have the confidence that it handles and solves problems or difficulties when implementing them in task, it is very simple to use, and nothing complex. ### 21. Oracle Linux which linux you will needed for your Oracle database, Mysql, Java platlform... **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** For ther linux release like redhat, ubuntu, centos,... you need install much more dependency software/ packages ... which require to install Oracle software like Oracle Database,....but with Oracle Linux they did the rest for you. Oracle was did great on tunning and config kernel with UEK version which can improvement almost system to highest load. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** At my view Oracle linux with UEK kernel seem tobe not stale like Redhat kernel which shipped same DVD, repository from Oracle. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** -I think Oracle Linux was easy to use if you are friendly with Redhat, Centos or other RPM linux release. - Best linux release for Oracle software. Oracle linux developers was deploy, install, configuration and tunning other parameters which is the good settings for setup. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Easy to deploy Oracle Software on Oracle linux like: Oracle Database, Oracle Clustering filesystem, Oracle EBS,... ### 22. Oracle Linux Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Security, stability, Oracle database integration. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Oracle pricing. Due to the very expensive support and plan, it is quite difficult for smaller companies around the world to invest in Oracle. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle linux is the most compatible and straightforward solution to host Oracle Database environments. ### 23. Oracle Linux: High performance and stability in operation. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Musa V. | Software Development, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is a replica of Red Hat Linux, a well-known version of Linux, and is very stable. This helps protect systems that are quite error free. The software is very helpful and I like the cloud-centric interface, which increases the connectivity between them. It is a scalable system and is compatible with many hardware brands. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There is a lack of integration with Microsoft and Mac networks to share network services. Add-ons for popular tracking tools such as Oracle and Zabbix are insufficient. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux is easy to implement packages that work well with Oracle databases. It is easy to hire resources because any Linux administrator can work with Oracle Linux, because the Linux administrator can run with almost zero changes to their existing Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The operating system was built and packaged from scratch, making it the best and easiest operating system to run the Oracle database. Oracle Linux is your best choice if you are going to deploy Oracle to an Intel or AMD-based server. However, although it is a special solution, an operating system is more than the other viewers from the administrative point of view. ### 24. Excellent Operative System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis S. | Francis Sosa, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** In the first instance, perfect to work in conjunction with other oracle technologies, whether database or applications, create a complete oracle environment. Native operating system tools optimized to internally monitor processes, performance, cpu, disks, ram, among others. Compatible with Intel processors, and virtualizations under environments of other operating systems such as Windows Server, great support from Oracle, modern kernel with better performance. Easy to use, compatible with a large number of different technologies at the hardware level. In summary very good distribution of linux to be used under business environments. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I do not have any problem with the operating system, it has fulfilled its functionality correctly, another excellent distribution of linux, it is required to have basic / intermediate knowledge in linux according to the purpose of the installation of this operating system, personal or business, **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Perfect for environments with oracle tools, responsive operating system, good performance and resource management, easy to handle with basic Linux knowledge. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the work environment under which I work, it is widely used in conjunction with other technologies of Oracle, databases and applications, facilitating a little administration and thus standardizing technologies, great performance, improved security, highly recommended ### 25. Oracle Linux Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Autonomous Linux, along with Oracle OS Management Service, is the first and only autonomous operating environment that helps greatly reduce complexity and human error to deliver increased cost savings, security, and availability for customers. Work with Oracle to design a solution that makes sense for your business. Leading solution providers standardize on Oracle Linux for its performance, scalability, reliability, and security for business-critical applications. Simple, flexible support pricing Feature-rich Linux distribution Award-winning global support organization spanning 195 countries **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The desktop experience is much needed, so we can move our Windows Desktop users to Oracle Linux Desktop. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivers higher reliability, security, and greater operational efficiency Automates tasks including patch and package management, security and compliance reporting, and configuration management Includes Oracle Linux Premier Support at no extra charge (with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure subscriptions) Provides 30 to 50% TCO savings ### 26. It is a good overal choice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sylvia M. | Customer Service Executive, Banking, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** this OS can be used to support other platforms and tools throughout an organization as it provides stability and security, it has well documented solutions for issues on Oracle support site, the OS kernel can be updated without having to reboot the system **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** it has issues such as cloud compatibility, can be slow, sometimes customer support from oracle could be challenging, there are fewer users of oracle linux than other versions, potentially making it hard to obtain outside support **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** the software does really work well with databases. it provides a fairly stable functionality for remote systems that have users requiring limited assistance **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** i realized that it is good for emails and correspondence servers ### 27. Virus Free Operating System. " Must Use" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noman G. | Head Enterprise Application Development , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Previously we are using different famous OS but some serious issue we are facing main performance and virus. Additionally, previous OS was much expensive to compare with Linux so as per budgeting we huritn a lot more than expected. Control and OS management very hand taking activity but in Linux, this help our infrastructure and DBA team a lot. They are more comfortable to manage this OS. As we are leading courier company in Pakistan so software are our back bone so our development team required fast performance and virus free server always which help business accordingly. As we are using large oracle database and Linux is excellent collaboration with this. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Configuration and installation is not much easy to compare others. its taken too much time to configure but once it get done then there will be no issue. Sometime support may taken so much time too due to every time you have to create SR in vendor website to resolve this issue and they may taken long time. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Linux is completely an open source project. You can have a look at the training first before going to implements **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Earlier i have mentioned benefits but some more are following Low cost, Performance Virus free Network friendly Security Multitasking ### 28. Ideal choice for both your development and production systems. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like the fact that Oracle Linux offers kernel and user space live patching with no downtime required. Oracle Linux is also the most stable, secure and flexible Linux variants in the world. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** For every instance and ticket they require all the OCI ID's. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** My organization is overwhelmed by rapidly changing cloud native technology landscape but Oracle solves this problem with Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment, a curated suite of open source tools, which are compliant with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and are included with Oracle Linux Premier Support. Oracle performs extensive integration and testing to ensure the stack works well together. ### 29. Oracle Linux Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony M. | DevOps Engineer | MicroServices Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It i very good at managing ram/ memory and sharing it among various programs that are running concurrently. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It is sometimes clumsy and slow and the support levels are wanting hence when an issue surfaces a user has to bear all the workload to fix. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It is a good environment especially if you have a need for running multiple applications simultaneously. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** running concurrent software inside the same environment. The benefits have included efficient memory sharing and usage among the applications. ### 30. Linux sys admin **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** What I like best about Oracle Linux is the ease of installation. Having only started administrating the software 2 years ago, I have been able to install and configure 4 production level servers and hardened them. There is lots of information to be found and it has helped a lot **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** there seems to be too many ways to configure ethernet setups. We had a 3rd party configure one of our environments, now whenever I try to do an update, I lose the ethernet settings, and I have not figured out why **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** the best benefit with Linux is unlike Microsoft, I don't have to reboot as often, patches are more easily applied and managed ### 31. Must Have OS Choice **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John T. | Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I work across many different types of organizations. In some cases, Oracle Linux is being used for all database servers across the entire organization. In some cases, it is being selectively rolled out to replace legacy Unix systems. Plus in a few isolated cases, I've helped to replace Windows database servers with Oracle Linux. The common theme across all these different types of organizations is that they want the best Linux for running Oracle, which is pre-tuned and optimized as well as well supported by the database vendor. Oracle Linux wins hands down on these points. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The operating system could be improved in its compatibility with older applications. There are fewer users of Oracle Linux than other versions, potentially making it harder to obtain outside support. Sometimes customer support from Oracle can be challenging. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The software does really well in systems that work with databases. It does really well in its connectivity to Oracle database applications. It also provides a great deal of stability and can provide fairly stable functionality for remote systems that have users requiring limited assistance. Installing Oracle Linux is fairly easy and less time consuming than other Linux versions. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you are going to deploy Oracle on an Intel or AMD based server then Oracle Linux is by far your best choice. The operating system is built and packaged from the ground up to be the single best and easiest OS for running an Oracle database. But while it may be a custom solution, it's probably 98% or more the same as Redhat and CentOS from an OS admin point of view - so easy to hire resources as any Linux admin can work with Oracle Linux with almost zero changes to their existing practices. ### 32. Operating system with more capacity for programmers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jasmin S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like Linux because you can actually customize it according to your liking as long as you can program the computer/do some coding yourself. Linux however is not for people who don’t have that capability and aren’t great with computers. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Not great for people who aren’t used to using computers frequently. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits are it’s more customizable according to your programming abilities. ### 33. An overview of linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ebuka N. | intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** 1) Outstanding system performance in terms of memory conservation and speed of execution of commands. 2) Availability of a good graphic user interface(GUI). 3) Linux is open-source **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Compatibility with other applications: The linux operating system occasionally has issues with some applications due to compatibility issues **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I'll advise that they do a thorough research on linux before diving right into it **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far, I have found linux Machine learning easier to implement since I switched from windows to linux ### 34. Oracle **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saurabh A. | ETL Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to Learn Handles execution of complex queries Query plan helps in identifying bottlenecks **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** GUI can be more user friendly Miss data modelling feature **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analysis for business queries Data profiling ### 35. I used to use it at work when was in charge of HR desk to process employee movement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Pretty easy to navigate but could be complicated when mistakes had to be corrected **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Could be a bit a pain if mistakes are made and had to go back track and correct **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Great tool for companies to keep track of employee movement **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Processed employee movement and leave of absences ### 36. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use and very similar to red Hat. Very easy to use. Also was easy to use the bundle patches when Oracle release its bundle patches including Database and OS. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** OS versions and features sometime not up to date with Red Hat Releases / Versions **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using this OS in our Oracle Database Appliances hardware ### 37. Features of Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** khan j. | ORACLE DATABASE AND LINUX ADMINISTRATOR, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Ability to quickly and efficiently deploy an environment that is ready to deploy an Oracle database Server.Administration is easy and smart of said product.Best product to deploy E-Business System and other oracle products.Good full text search functionality .oracle linux with UEK can be deployed either on physical servers or on virtual servers.oracle linux and oracle vm are optimized and well engineered to work together. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** With Third party application oracle linux was not adjusted able. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux is good and smart solution for oracle databases and related oracle products . This easy and smart to administration. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** get better performance with business activities. ### 38. Manager, Business Information Systems **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** We have been using ODA over 3 years now and base OS is Oracle Linux. I found it robust, easy to navigate especially it works well with the ODA component and never had problem at the OS level. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Frequency of patch updates. It hard to keep up with the patch deployment **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** biggest benefit - All in one & 1 stop shop ### 39. Stable, Standard, Performant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Application stability and Performant OS. Always gives reliable performance even under stress. The systems are pretty standard and help with a lot of the devops style deployments to go absolutely smooth. Love the Linux community. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The Oracle Repositories sometimes lack some of the nicer tools that many other Xnix systems like CentOS and Ubuntu support out-of-the-box. I did love to see them pre-packaged or atleast remain available through additional repo files. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Very stable and standard Linux system. If you are looking for personal desktops choose a different flavour of Linux, but if you are looking for enterprise grade deployments this is a good choice. Strengths: Stability, Reliable, Performance, OS Tools Can be better: Patches, Additional Repos for smart tools **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Several benefits - Deployment of many of our systems, playing around with new technologies are tried on OL6/OL7. Benefits are innumerably many - to brief our development, stage and prod. systems are on Oracle Linux. ### 40. Oracle **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdelhamid B. | Finance analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It gathers al kinds of information and summarize it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Its a little bit old fashioned, not the best erp out there **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Be like sap **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes my work easier ### 41. Solid Linux distribution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Very little to go wrong here, has a good pedigree. Basically works as expected. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There have been a few issues with package upgrades, sometimes dependencies don't have the right version available. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Oracle Linux for development has had many benefits over using Windows since it is the same platform as our servers. ### 42. Pretty simple Linux distributive. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mateo G. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** High performance. Useful controls. Easy to customize. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Pretty meager user interface. Requires improvements. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used as an operating system on some PCs. ### 43. Quick, Easy, Crsh **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Talia C. | Customer Service Representative, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's honestly quick and really easy to use. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It crashes entirely too easily. I can be in the middle of an email or call and out of nowhere the entire system will crash. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to multitask and meet my customers needs all at one time while keeping everything in one centralized location. ### 44. Oracle Linux a must have OS Choice **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen N. | Integration Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** memory management kernel pre-tuned excellent Oracle support well documented solutions for issues on Oracle support site **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** better adoption by all cloud providers required need to improve the integration with webmin more plug-ins need to be provided for popular monitoring tools **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** The operating system is built and packaged from the ground up to be the single best and easiest OS for running an Oracle database. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** provided workstation and server functionalities for small businesses and organizations ### 45. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay G. | Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use, upgrade and secured. Patch upgrades are simple. Normal linux commands works. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** No GUI interaction so developer needs terminal use habit (though it's common for unix systems). **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Try out it. Best for app servers. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** For application servers deployments. ### 46. Fast and easy to use and mantain **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Its 100% compatible with RedHat and has support. It is faster than a Widows system and you can install Oracle with great advantages. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The terms of license, it is not a free or GNU product. You have to pay. The installation process maybe noyt suitable for beginners. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is suitable form Oracle installations or where you need Redhat but d not want to pay for their server support. ### 47. Good user experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ángel Adrián M. | Ingeniero de Sistemas Junior, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** -The best thing is the ability to learn new shortcuts and quick startup -the kernel is very lightweight and can be made even lighter by compiling what you need -high security of connections with various firewalls -easy user management and access control **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** If I had to say something I don't like, it's the scalability of the system. While it's true that it remains a licensed Red Hat, it has several limitations and that somewhat spoils the user experience. Otherwise, it's a robust operating system. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Knowing normal Linux, you won't have a problem adapting; you'll learn the small variations right away. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** software deployment and real-time builds ### 48. It's Oracle's RedHat **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Being an Oracle database Solution Architect since 10 years, i have a preference to use Oracle products if they are really good. Oracle Linux is very well suited for Oracle products like Oracle EBS Suite and Oracle Database. Although, you can run these products on other supported OS like RedHat but certain features like smart scan for Exadata is only supported on Oracle Linux. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The slow GUI. If you happen to use GUI interface of Oracle Linux, it's slow sometimes. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Oracle Linux for our database servers and ERP server hosting Oracle E-Business Suite. The support is pretty cheap and is fairly simple for anyone with RedHat background. ### 49. Oracle linix from a DBA perspective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher T. | Lead of cloud engineering , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I have been working as an oracle dba since 2011, i have worked with several OS like IBM Aix , hpux, redhat but I tottally preffer Oracle Linux because all the prerrequisites are already installed. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It does not have anything new, it is Bassically linux red hat **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle dbms hosting, its faster to deploy an on premise oracle db in oracle linux than any other OS. ### 50. Stability and security of Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like how flexible it is to create commands and use them in configuring and using Oracle Database 10. I tried using Oracle 10g on Windows, but it's not as flexible as Oracle Solaris. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The aspect of learning so many commands can be tiring; its hard to work around some concepts if you are not familiar with the necessary commands. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted to scale the nodes of my company's network. Since Oracle Linux is optimized for performance, it is easy to scale very easily. The exception is only when I use RAC. 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