Oracle Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Oracle Linux Average rating 7.8 from 11 review(s) What are your thoughts on Oracle Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 9.28.77.96.95.114.8 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 9.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-06-24 Votes: 3 Okay, Oracle 9.2 is a BIG download, but absolutely worth doing. Distrowatch does not provide selection for 9.2 yet. Thing is, after install I kept working on Wayland with the Noveau driver for Nvidia. Works perfectly on my desktop. My advice is to wait a 30 seconds after the boot of Gnome for great performance and speed. Question of software in the repos, all you need is there, but it is not Fedora. In comparison with Fedora, Oracle is minimalistic, but you can get all what is needed for the desktop. For software I installed flatpak as if Oracle is Red Hat. Works great. Why I do not give a 10 is I left for 2 weeks, and by return I expected at least 1 update. There were no updates. This is, together with Rocky Linux, the absolute best gnome distro I ever used. Did however not use Debian 12 or OpenSuSE 15.5 yet. So if you search a great rock stable workhorse and you want it devellopped by a firm, go for Oracle. You prefer Community or other desktop, go for Rocky. Have fun. I want to make very clear I use Oracle on my home desktop. I am a Linux user since Corel Linux and used almost all major distros including Slackware, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Opensuse... Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.1 Rating: 3 Date: 2023-05-27 Votes: 0 Installer sucks bad. Freezes and has other issues. If you can't get past the installer part reliably why would you trust this to run your server? Inconsistent release cycles. 6 releases in 12 years? Come on...no thanks. It just feels like a very unstable and outdated RHEL clone that has nothing special to offer. Whatever this distro can do RHEL does it better. Since this is supposed to be a server distro there is literally zero reason to pick this over RHEL. None whatsoever. On and their logo looks silly... No sir, I didn't like it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-01-30 Votes: 13 This is an enterprise class distro you may safely rely on. Basically, OL now serves the niche where CentOS used to sit backed up by the tech giant Oracle the same way as CentOS was backed up by Red Hat. It also has nice additions such as UEK and paid Oracle support for those who need it. While probably unpopular, my opinion is that Oracle behind this RHEL incarnation makes this distro a much more preferable choice in the long run as compared to those distros trying to replace CentOS (Rocky, Alma, etc.). Their credibility and commitment including the ability to sustainably finance their goals are doubtful to me. I don't see any reason why free OL is inferior to those initiatives while I welcome the community efforts. Oracle for many years follows its commitment to provide lifetime free unlimited access to the OL distro and repositories. Functionally, with OL you get the same RHEL as the RHEL itself, so there is no difference substantially. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 11 reader reviews of Oracle Linux...