--- 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: '2026-07-13' 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. (13 reviews) - Users value the **regular updates** of Oracle Linux, enhancing security and ensuring smooth, uninterrupted operations. (9 reviews) - Users highlight the **strong compatibility** of Oracle Linux with Oracle software, enhancing enterprise performance and reliability. (8 reviews) - Users value the **reliability** of Oracle Linux, praising its stability and performance for mission-critical workloads. (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 express concern over the **lack of support** , making troubleshooting and learning more difficult compared to other distributions. (15 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) - 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. 10 years as Linux admin. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bikash G. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Great support by oracle technical support team. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** OS can be light weight in size and resources consumption. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** You will enjoy running it. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running production grade application. ### 2. Oracle linux is excellent for oracle db **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Qaisar M. | Associate Database Consultant , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Package already there to run oracle database **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Gui must be more helpfull add excel worksheet **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle database runs very smooth alternate of redhat and solaris ### 3. It's really hard shell language and OS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul P. | Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Light OS , for various applications quite suitable **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The package store is far to reach in oracle Linux **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I strongly recommend this OS **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** All vulnerabilities problem and slowness issues are resolved ### 4. The experience was good while working with Oracle, good learning environment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin S. | Specialist - Cloud and Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** A good learning environment and supporting managers. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** A little bit of office politics by managers and team leads. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** No advice. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** aUTOMATION AND CLOUD ### 5. Easy to manage and user friendly OS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhartha D. | Module Lead Technical Support Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Managing this Operating system is very much easy **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There is nothing much to dislike about this OS **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for RAC deployments (clustering) ### 6. Neutral Linux Operating System **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Compatibility with Oracle products like WebLogic and Oracle DB **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Updates and patch management schedules are little deviated and command line is a little different **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux can be used and preferred if you want to closely tie with Oracle Products **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** More compatibility with command line tools for Oracle Products ### 7. Almost 10 yr i am working with Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajit G. | O, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Introduced Container technology option for Kubernetes and docker **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Subscription method for licensing is dificult **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** container orchestration ### 8. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Showrya K. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy to use and more secure and reliable. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Obviously, the enterprise version is a bit costly when compared to the competitors. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was using this to manage my application and database servers. ### 9. Very recommended, comfortable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Dairy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I have been using oracle Linux 6,7 it's so comfortable compare to other flavors of Linux. We use db installed and other applications installed on oel platform. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I don't have dislikes. I have been using since 5 years . **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Os Performance issues , db related issues . Benefits are very comfortable. ### 10. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parthasarathi B. | Senior Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It the only OS offers kernel,hypervisor and live patching with no downtime required. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It have some bugs while updating patches **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its an open source environment with virtualization and cloud computing tools. ### 11. Oracle Linux is more secure and robust. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** himanshu k. | Associate Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** System performance. Kernel security. Vulnerable **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Need for improvement to support all applications **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running our high end database on oracle linux ### 12. It's a great environment to host the data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tanu K. | Senior Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** More security compared to other products **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** More dependencies on frequency of patches. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stable performance bug issues which gets fixed in future patches. ### 13. Feedback for Oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It has large number of features which is very useful to facilitate cloud based activities **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** more new features which are unknown, so that its difficult to cope up with the version **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Oracle Linux to manage data and troubleshoot the errors ### 14. I was comfortable using Oracle Linux especially for database servers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Distribution readiness for deployment of Oracle software **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** There are some nuances associated with migration from other distributions **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** I don't have recommendations **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly used for deploying database servers and middleware. The distribution is well prepared to work with Oracle software ### 15. Its user friendly for oracle users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is quit Easy when it comes to Installation. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** For a nonfamiliar oracle person, it's a bit difficult. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less oracle pacthes need to install. ### 16. Senior System Engineer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Hosting Web services and Virtualization services **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** information related to building a Certificate Authority and AES **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building container and automation. It's very safe and easy ### 17. Professional Stable System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Germari C. | Operating System Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Install on PC and server for control, security and stable for users main system, full user registration, compatible with Fedora and RHEL applications, connect with different Oracle software and open source for control and visualization. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It demands a lot of system resources for low performance tasks, the system itself demands more and more with recurring updates. Integrating the server requires time and a lot of Linux knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Update server to have better performance main system manage Orable applications and much more. Works together with RHEL. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database registration, data control and stable and secure administration of extra Oracle applications and other independent services. Increased performance compared to Windows servers. ### 18. My experience with oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It has many features that helps to facilitate many cloud based activities. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Many unknown features are available. It is very hard to learn every features. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote-based Database Management, Trouble shooting and bug correction in every version. ### 19. experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** easy to install packages with vast number of repo. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** sometimes i feel slowness even if i am running on good hardware **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** oracle linux will give you flexiblity to do run all types of application, however try and go live **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** running DB on oracle linux ### 20. Oracle Linux is great one for database. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Easy commnds for working, where we can easily track the errors also when issue happened **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Need more support from oracle support to connect withoracle agent when P1 issues happened. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Great one, expecting more updates. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have verified logs, and other files to resolve some application issues in hyperion essbase. ### 21. Overwhelmed with the service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Frequent updates with many exciting and useful features. Open source **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Less user-friendly. Sometimes troubleshooting cant be resolved using user manuals or guidelines **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring the server and troubleshooting the issues which increase the performance. It is highly reliable and secure ### 22. Oracle linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle linux is very powerful withuse if resourcibg part . **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Interface and look for the logo or else good **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It's better than IBM aix **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** OS is very powerfull and resouces are very greatly used with the minimal efficiency of cpu used ### 23. Oracle linux review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Reliability and more secure OS with two kernel **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It was not much attractive visually. Less user friendly. But the features are more usefull and brillant. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was more secure with very high performance. It is highly supportive for cloud platforms. ### 24. Perfect Suitable OS for Oracle Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** OpenSource, Ability to host any software applications and framework. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** No downsides. Major operations are command Line **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Oracle Linux can be considered to run any software applications seamlessly. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performing Database Migrations, cloning and DB related works. Easy to use platform. Productive and well-maintained work-life balance. ### 25. Long time working on linux . Satisfied **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Awais R. | Sr. Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Security, Patching, Very good for database **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing to be disliked. Customer Support **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Day to day database issues. ### 26. It is simple to use and user friendly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Monitoring, easy upgrades, application friendly, best works for oracle and other databases. Oracle database, tomcat, Postgres sql. It comes up as best along with its competitors. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It could be more easy to use with third party applications. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring and troubleshooting oracle databases. Monitoring OS performance. ### 27. I have used Oracle Linux for years and have a lot experience on multiple Linux flavours. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** UEK kernel is the best I liked in Oracle Linux. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The configuration and patching or Oracle Linux from centralised tool like Satellite was not that good. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best with Oracle linux is its well tuning and availability and support to run Oracle DB. ### 28. Linux for Oracle **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is very powerful with ease of resourcing part. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Interface and logo else is good.GUI can be improved **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Is better than HP UX **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** OS is very powerful and resources are greatly used with hardware and CPU minimal efficiency. ### 29. Great experiance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Good support. Enterprise linux so easy to adopt from redhat **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing to dislike. Certain documentation could improve **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly used it in environments with oracle vm. In which case oracle os subscription is free ### 30. My experience with oracle Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It has many features that helps to facilitate many cloud-based activities **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Many unknown features are available. It is very hard to learn every feature. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remote-based Database Management, Trouble shooting and bug correction in every version. ### 31. Oracle Programmer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Textiles | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's technically quite comfortable and its very smart to restrict the user access **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** None, GUI Interface make some more attractive. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Guard, successful installed ### 32. Great performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** The performance and its realiability. It works great **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Nothing, everything works great and adjust to my needs **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Fully recommended for Linux environments for virtualization. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using it as testing platform ### 33. My review for oracle linux **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's interface is very good. Also I find easy esa of the commandline **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I do not like the packages that is available on other operating system **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving problem for automation and clustering sometimess ### 34. Performant and good integration with production tools. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Database integration and scalability feature. CI and CD integration. Kubernetes integration. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Buggy apps due to on the go patching of vulnerabilities. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** DevOps stack ### 35. Oracle DBA **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It's very compatible with Oracle database , all requirement for database installation comes as default **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Sometimes crash and restart during high load **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most used in past as it compatible with Oracle database ### 36. It was great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It was fast and snappy. The overall experience was great! **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Some applications and games are not supported **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** More support for apps **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some financial sector data analytics ### 37. Oracle Linux is good, Comparing to RHEL similar features. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Open source software can be used in Production and can relay on. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** When it comes to graphical interface. It's much similar to RHEL could be little different. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Docker, Tomcat, chef, yum ### 38. Must have for working within the Oracle framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Before moving over to the Oracle Linux environment, we had used UNIX. LINUX has a better system architecture and has better compatibility. We also preferred it over Windows since it had multi-user support and was better with threading. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It takes some time to get used to the new command-line syntax and a bit of a learning curve with that. Still use a cheat sheet for that. We had some difficulty with drive mapping as well and user privileges when connecting from the Oracle DB. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security has been enhanced going into Oracle Linux from Unix. There were some scripts that needed to be changed slightly for LINUX, but it was a minor fix. LINUX integrated with Oracle better since it optimized the environment for better performance. We received better support directly from Oracle as well when we ran into system issues. ### 39. Oracle Linux the best tool to connect to the Oracle Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MD E. | Technical Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I am using Oracle Linux 7 to connect to the Oracle Database. Oracle Linux has many features. It has amazing interface. Connectivity through putty to the Database is very good. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Sometimes it's static IP change frequently. Powering off takes much time. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Multipurpose solving. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Oracle Linux 7. I use it to connect to the Oracle Database through putty. We take care of Database through Oracle Linux 7. ### 40. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep V. | Manager - App support, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Its very compatible with all the software and also user-friendly. Also the performance of the server and oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Engineered Systems is awesome **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** If they can add more Plugins for compatibility **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux in Microsoft Azure plugin configuration ### 41. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** compliance security kernel hypervisor live patching **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** no such dislikes still now. will definitely share in future **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** no such ### 42. I love the compatibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul M. | System Analist - Datacenter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 ### 43. Oracle linux: Compatibility and Scalability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sneha M. | Software Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is easy to install. It is an open source platform with open cloud network. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It is difficult to understand. It requires specialized employees and technical knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Give it a try. It is a platform that provides high performance and scalability. You can easily work with Oracle Linux if you have required skill set. It has an extensive community. It has high efficiency. Oracle linux accelerrates digital transformation. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security is enhanced. It has optimizes the environment for better performance. Connection to Oracle database applications can be done easily. ### 44. Oracle customers will benefit from this powerful and stable Linux operating system. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is a stable clone of Red Hat Linux, a well-known Linux distribution. This aids in the maintenance of systems that are relatively error-free. The kernel of the operating system can be upgraded without having to reboot the system, which can save time. Oracle Linux is available in a number of easy-to-install packages that work well with Oracle databases. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The operating system's compatibility with older programs could be improved. Oracle Linux has fewer users than other versions, which could make getting outside help more difficult. Oracle customer service can be difficult at times. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It's the platform that enables us to support other platforms and technologies across the company. It ensures stability and security, allowing us to deliver a safe and secure platform. Its operation is characterized by high performance and stability. Is a scalable solution that works with a variety of hardware brands. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software performs admirably in database-driven systems. It performs admirably when it comes to connecting to Oracle database applications. It also offers a high level of reliability and can provide reasonably reliable performance for remote systems with users who require just minor help. Oracle Linux is quite simple to install and takes less time than other Linux distributions. ### 45. Oracle Linux Operating System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** Oracle Linux is the best option as OS when you are using Oracle as database. It Is best for the cloud and data center platform with lower cost. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** I don't find anything which I dislike about Oracle Linux but one with very limited knowledge of shell scripting and database concept will surely struggle **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** It's time to move to oracle Linux to enter the era of digital transformation and cloud-based applications. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Linux accelerate the digital transformation, and it is a complete operating environment which is open as well. ### 46. Good for customization & developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** I like the ease of running scripts from command line & multiple sources for help **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Sometimes difficult to work with other OS **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly use in developing python and shell scripts. Linux makes it simple to run tests ### 47. What are my views on oracle Linux. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amritpal K. | Embedded System Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is a very vast system which provides very advanced tools specially to pentesting and hacking. Also, it is the base of software development and works on command line. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** It requires atleast 8gb of RAM therefore its hardware requirements are more compared to windows. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since i am working on kali linux, it provides me greater tools for pentesting. I do more effective work on linux compared to windows. Also, this linux provies command line interfacing which is not a cup of tea for every individual. Therefore, some skills are required to work on it. ### 48. Oracle Linux Servers- much compatible with Oracle products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veer Pratap S. | Research Fellow, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** A GUI-based editor is the best feature that provides a user-friendly environment to its user. Also, automatic patching with zero down-time is the advantage it offers to the users. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** Download speed is somewhat low. The product owner can think upon to increase the capacity of servers. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** Its very user-friendly and easy to install, so you will like to work with Oracle Linux. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides faster deployment solutions in cloud environments. Used its various features like HA and cloud native computing infrastructure as per my project needs. Its easy patch fixing feature and easy to handle makes me to use it more frequent. ### 49. The best Operative System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel Q. | Information Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** It is very good, you have several developments that enhance the operating system kernel, through the support 100% all the functionalities are exploited, such as automatic patching, centralized administration. **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** The product information portal is not very friendly, it is necessary to know how to handle linux-based systems. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Linux:** You will not regret it, it is the best operating system, since it allows you to have control of all the applications you have, it has great compatibility with a large amount of hardware. And the support is the best, in several languages ​​follow up the cases the best service. **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that have helped us, is the installation of security patches automatically without a kernel of the operating system, vulnerability revision with ksplice, the support has facilitated solving integration problems with an IBM DB2 database. ### 50. Oracle Linux **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** walter g. | Subgerente de Sistemas, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Linux?** its kernel offers extensive performance and scalability improvements for the process scheduler, memory management, file systems, and the network stack **What do you dislike about Oracle Linux?** not widely used yet, not many installations that use it **What problems is Oracle Linux solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ksplice technology updates the kernel, hypervisors, and critical user-space libraries, without imposing a restart or service interruption ## Oracle Linux Discussions - [Does Oracle run on Linux?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-oracle-run-on-linux) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is Oracle Linux the same as Red Hat?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-oracle-linux-the-same-as-red-hat) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [What is Oracle Linux used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-linux-used-for) - 7 comments, 1 upvote - [It’s nice product](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35707-it-s-nice-product) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is Oracle Linux used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/oracle-linux-what-is-oracle-linux-used-for) - 2 comments - [View Oracle Linux pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-linux/reviews?page=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-13+15%3A13%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2ef05b2a-6b11-41da-9246-f25eea906b3d&secure%5Btoken%5D=0eb5ae1e1ddef2a9e581fb498cc8b057f3a1e0bd3529f9e734186970e350a683&format=llm_user) ## Oracle Linux Integrations - [CalendarBridge](https://www.g2.com/products/calendarbridge/reviews) - [NinjaOne](https://www.g2.com/products/ninjaone/reviews) - [Oracle Database](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) ## Oracle Linux Features **Memory Management - Operating System** - RAM management **Device Management - Operating System** - I/O management **Backup and Recovery - Operating System** - Data backup **Error Detection - Operating System** - System operations monitoring ## Top Oracle Linux Alternatives - [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (2,341 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (932 reviews) - [Windows 7](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-7/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (871 reviews)