Oracle Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Oracle Linux Average rating 8.1 from 14 review(s) Version: 10.0 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-08-27 Votes: 9 A very good linux. It is highly stable, not tending to crash and it has enough user friendly interface that it is reachable to most of the public. Having used it for over a year, it really deserves praise. Perhaps its strength is that it is commercially backed. It really is recommended highly. Give it a try if you are tired of letdowns with other distro´s. Obviously it also has cryptographic and other security features, but for the home desktop user these are just bonuses that may not be needed. Again, the surprise it that anybody can find this production of linux to be versatile and truly useful as an everyday system. Version: 8.7 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-03 Votes: 4 I've used Oracle Linux on and off since version 5, always as a VMWare or VirtualBox guest. Its a really big download and you have to pay close attention to the installation options, especially if you want to run it as a desktop type OS. Its easy to skip through this and end up with stuff you don't want, or no desktop. Its very good for hosting Oracle itself, in that it can be installed with most of the pre requisites for Oracle in place, or its really easy to install them afterwards. By contrast, although it looks and acts like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, doing the same thing on red Hat can take a lot more effort. The other big advantage of Oracle Linux over Red Hat here is that it comes pre configured with working repos, whereas Red Hat like to make you pay for accessing their repos. Without this you can wind up chasing RPMs around looking for what you need. Personally I do not get along with Gnome as a desktop environment but that is my choice - the Gnome that comes with Oracle Linux is certainly clean and clutter free. If you want to try a RHEL type distro and learn about RPMs or dnf, you can certainly give this a try. However as a desktop OS with RHEL under pinnings you may also want to take a look at either Rocky Linux or Alma Linux. The latter in particular seems more desktop friendly and is certainly speedy. Version: 9.2 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-10-06 Votes: 38 This is a review of Oracle Linux 9.2 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) used as a desktop operating system. NB: A BTRFS root file system can be created by using the UEK version. The UEK Boot ISO image was downloaded and written to a USB for installation. The Anaconda installer is used (like Fedora, Centos, etc.) and did the job fine. A BTRFS root file system was chosen to allow a couple of small SSDs to be set-up in a RAID 0 array for a reasonably sized system. However, the default layout was changed to have and ext4 boot partition and a 2 GB swap partition. The installation completed without any issues. The installed Oracle system is operating very well, runs fast and seems extremely stable. The Gnome desktop environment is provided with minimal applications being added during installation. I prefer this as it allows me to chose the software applications I want, rather than ones chosen by a distro packager. Oracle repos, RPMFusion and Flatpaks can be used to obtain additional software applications. No difficulty has been encountered in finding any of the applications I use. Although, I did find that Oracle's CRB repo was needed in addition to Oracle's EPEL repo to install ffmpeg. System upgrades to Firefox can lag behind official releases, so I replaced the installed version with the Flathub version. Also, (being a desktop system) I removed the “rhn-setup” application. All hardware was detected without any problems. Software management can be handled by using dnf or Gnome Software. Both methods are working well. Generally, any documentation needed has been easily found with a quick internet search. Oracle Linux is performing very well and I suspect I'll be using it as my default desktop operating system for quite a while. See all 14 reader reviews of Oracle Linux...