Hello, All

My company is considering a move to Oracle Linux. I am aware it is more or less a RHEL clone, but am looking for experiences of those on it - preferably in an enterprise environment vs. personal use. Also, those that may have moved from OL to some other distro.

It is pushed heavily 'never need to reboot'. What does it apply to - major bug fixes, full kernel updates?

If anyone here is using it or did in the past, how was the support experience - if you had to use it?

Are there any gotchas with licensing?

Did you have to convert over from a previous OS i.e. RHEL, CentOS, etc. or vice versa?


Any help or insight is appreciated! I was not sure whether to post this in the Distribution forum or not.

Thanks!

I have used it in a personal setting but along with CentOS and Scientific you are as you say some what a clone of RH. Oracle might be a choice for a company that uses their other products I'd think. They do claim a few things unique to their offering.

Using it without an agreement to me is foolish. Either buy the support or go opensource, there'd be no reason I could think of to use it otherwise.

Now, there are some plants or industrial settings that config a system and leave it air gap'd as there is no need for any outside use. They could read the EULA and decide how they wished to use it.

For the most part I'd think that any RH setup should work unless it involved the more advanced features of RH that are not opensourced. Large instances would almost require those services.