Oracle Linux Information Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

245 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Oracle Linux are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Compatibility with CentOS/RHEL: Users have praised the top-notch compatibility of Oracle Linux with CentOS/RHEL, ensuring smooth operations for many reviewers who rely on these systems for their tasks. The seamless integration between Oracle Linux and CentOS/RHEL has been a key factor in enhancing user experience and workflow efficiency.

User-friendly migration script: Some users have expressed appreciation for the highly easy-to-use migration script in Oracle Linux. They find it to be a valuable tool that simplifies transitions and saves time during the process. The intuitive design and functionality of the migration script have garnered positive feedback from users undergoing system migrations.

Stability and reliability: Reviewers describe Oracle Linux as stable, reliable, and fast. This consistent performance over time has instilled a sense of security in its long-standing availability since version 6 among users performing various tasks. The robust stability and unwavering reliability of Oracle Linux contribute to a dependable operating environment for diverse applications and workloads.

Reviews

21 Reviews

Information

Oracle Linux is Here and Its Here to STAY!!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a budding startup in the 5g sector, we are looking to innovate, scale, and automate. The flexibility, agility, and robustness of Oracle Linux make it a brilliant fit for handling infrastructure loads during deployments in Dev/Test servers along with customer load in production servers as well. Definitely recommended.

Pros

Cloud applications/docker and kubernetes support is one of the best.
Highly reliable and excellent performance.
The similarity with the linux commands and Hierarchy makes it fairly easy to use.

Cons

The user interface is good but needs to improve for user engagement.
Now need to develop as a cross-functional product with compatibility with other OS like Windows and Mac. This is currently missing from the product.
License cost is little on a higher side.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Linux is a very good and useful combination of the stability of Rhel and support for Oracle Databases. Our organisation uses an application and a database combo that we offer to the client but after the inclusion of Oracle Linux into our infrastructure, the provision and the operation cost are reduced significantly. So I would recommend using Oracle Linux when you are using multiple on-premises DB servers and want to move to a more secure, organised, and fast operating system.

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering (Telecommunications company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Oracle Linux is one of the best.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 31, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used to host our Applications and Webservers. The enterprise support is very good even during odd or out-of-office hours. We have hosted multiple applications on these servers including Database servers.

Pros

High Performance.
Good Support.
Multiple Budget Options.

Cons

Security.
Providing more robust solutions.
Clearing issues with the Disk Mounts.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Linux can be used if your application is huge and enterprise-level consisting of multiple user transactions daily. This is the go-to product if you are looking for a high-reliability server OS.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Ready to run databases in Oracle

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Linux when it's important to a vendor's details for their activity, so we don't involve it as much as usual Red Hat Linux, although it works important enough for activity, updates, etc. basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and updates can be accessed when regular Red Hat updates are delivered.

Pros

Support costs are lower than Red Hat
It comes pre-built to run Oracle
It's great to have for an Oracle dataset server

Cons

It's more confusing than Windows
If you want to use it on CentOS for example, the kernel is not compatible
It does not have a very friendly interface

Likelihood to Recommend

it's an amazing OS to run Oracle stuff, we use it to run Oracle databases and children right now, but soon it could start to be used as a relief to CentOS in other regions of our building. One perfect detail that is easily overlooked and that I especially like is that it comes pre-built for updates, so you don't have to guess and change Yum's settings.

Melissa Hallam

Game Developer in Engineering at AppLovin (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Unbreakable and trusted partner OS

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Not officially but for personal usage and some testing purposes. Personally, I am using Oracle Linux for virtualization and container development, and testing studies. I also have experience with new releases

Pros

Unbreakable
Trusted
Flexible

Cons

more container features

Likelihood to Recommend

For most of development environments as Java, Phyton

Verified User

Engineer in Corporate (Telecommunications company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Oracle Linux review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Oracle Linux to host our monitoring tools in one of our datacenters, we used it because we already have a good background with the Oracle support team and OEL is certified by our applications. OEL gave us the ability to customize some modules to be able to run our applications in higher performance and as it's compatible with RHEL binaries, we were able to use a lot of built-in tools to monitor and customize the OS itself.

Pros

resource management
virtualizations drivers are very fast and compatible with RHEL binaries
it can be patched without reboot
OEL Support team responding very fast and able to help us in short time

Cons

feature upgrades is very slow compared with RHEL
there is no community support or shared Ops knowledge base, you have to raise a ticket for every issue
the documentation need to be updated and improved

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Linux will be good if the application you're running on top of it is from Oracle or certified to run on it. if your company has a good support plan/contract with Oracle if you don't have the above two points, then don't use it.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

B2B application experience with Oracle Linux

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used the main backend for electronic data interchange and central file transfer, Oracle Linux and Solaris are the main driver of our B2B platform and is essential in our BAU activities.

Pros

Security
Scalability
Integration

Cons

Repository

Likelihood to Recommend

As a backbone and application backend, it excels for web-based applications not so much.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Why Oracle Linux

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Oracle Linux as the main operating system for all our servers either Database servers or Middleware servers. Actually, we don't face major issues with Oracle Linux. It is very stable, easy to use, and easy to manage. The most important thing is Oracle Linux is fully supported by Oracle for free if you are using Engineering systems like Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), Oracle Exadata, or Oracle Private Appliance (PCA). It is 24*7 support in which can create a ticket in a few minutes and get the support in a very reasonable time based on the severity of the issue.

Pros

Performance
Stability
Support
Manageability
Scalability

Cons

We would like to see more auto patch update process

Likelihood to Recommend

For Oracle Database and Middleware environment using Oracle Linux as an operating system platform is very efficient in terms of compatibility. The products are working together to provide a secure, scalable, and fast service delivery at the end. We have a=managed to migrate our Oracle Forms product from one operating system to Oracle Linux three years ago and we were impressed with the performance improvement which we gained. It was an over 60% improvement in terms of performance.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

A saviour and friend for DBA- Oracle Linux

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 26, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We usually work in Oracle Linux. As [Oracle] DBA [experts] we recommend Oracle Linux to [customers] based on its flexibility and [ease] to [handling] oracle database on that platform. Performance of database is great on Oracle Linux in [comparison] with RHEL and AIX.

Pros

Easy to operate and install RPM[.]
Best performance.
Easy to use some administrative tools like Topas, Nmon , Sar utility.
Wide variety of [products] supported.

Cons

All RPM installation should be automated and no further human involvement.
Need more administrative tools in GUI.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Linux is best suited for Oracle database (all version) and Oracle e-business suite ( all release) in shared mode. Apart from that, all oracle product like golden gate, PeopleSoft, Oracle fusion middleware product, and even modern product like oracle fusion cloud is best suited in Linux.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Low Cost High Return On Oracle Linux OS

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use to for some customer place, those wants to avoid CentOS. Oracle Linux widely supports all rpm and is similar to other Unix OS, it's good to use for SIEM implementation. Typically for Splunk Enterprise, the base OS I use sometimes when it needs to be different.

Pros

Support all features required for Splunk Implementation.
Syslog-NG also supported.
Crontab also working as per expectation.

Cons

As such improvement has not been seen. But in GNOME, yes more graphical look and feels will be good to have.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's stable and reliable like RHEL.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Review on Oracle Linux Product

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Linux as an operating system for our Oracle e-business suite applications, it pretty much delivers the robustness, security, and scalability to our organizational needs. Till now we have not found any serious issues with it, we regularly apply the bug fixes on the operating system, databases, and applications.

Pros

Security
Scalable
Robustness

Cons

I guess GUI needs little more improvement.
Plug and play options should be more user friendly.
System monitoring should be also clubbed with GUI.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Oracle Linux is more suitable to the environments where there is online data transaction hit more and it pretty much suits there as there are good security gateways in Oracle Linux than many around operating systems in the market. The companies with high data load like data warehousing are well managed. It also depends on the company with what they put focus on.

Shahid Mohammad

Database Architect in Information Technology at GBM (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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