Potential users can freely download Oracle Linux through Oracle's server, or from a variety of mirror sites, and can deploy and distribute it without cost.[6] The company'sOracle Linux Support program aims to provide commercial technical support, covering Oracle Linux and existing RHEL orCentOS installations but without any certification from the former (i.e. without re-installation or re-boot).[5][7][clarification needed] As of 2016[update] Oracle Linux had over 15,000 customers subscribed to the support program.
Oracle Linux is application binary compatible with RHEL. Oracle claims that existing applications run unchanged because all application interfaces are identical to RHEL.
Oracle Linux is certified on servers including fromCisco,Dell,HPE,IBM, andLenovo. In July 2023, HPE[12] and Supermicro[13] announced[14][15] Oracle Linux support on their Arm-based servers.
Third-party software that ISVs have certified to run on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM can be found in thiscatalog Oracle/Sun servers withx86-64 processors can be configured to ship with Oracle Linux.
The Oracle Linux distribution includesKVM hypervisor and an oVirt-based management tool. Other supported server virtualization solutions are VMware and Xen-based Oracle VM.
Oracle Cloud Native Environment has addedKubeVirt support for unified container and virtual machine management beginning with the 1.7 release.[18]
Linux Containers (LXC) are supported in Oracle Linux 7.[19]
Oracle Container Runtime for Docker is available on Oracle Linux 6 and 7. It’s not provided in Oracle Linux 8+.[20]
Podman is a drop-in[21] replacement for Oracle Container Runtime for Docker in Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9. Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo are a set of tools that you can use to create, run, and manage applications across Oracle Linux systems by using Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible containers.
Oracle Cloud Native Environment has integrated[22] container runtimes to create and provision Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant containers using CRI-O, an implementation of the Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) to enable using Open Container Initiative compatible runtimes.
Oracle Linux Container images are available via Oracle Container Registry, GitHub Container Registry and Docker Hub.
Oracle Corporation uses Oracle Linux extensively within Oracle Public Cloud, internally to lower IT costs. Oracle Linux is deployed on more than 42,000 servers by Oracle Global IT; the SaaSOracle On Demand service,Oracle University, and Oracle's technology demo systems also run Oracle Linux.[5]
Oracle Linux Automation Manager Is based on open source AWX project, is a task engine and web interface for scheduling and running Ansible playbooks[24]
Oracle Cloud Native Environment, a CNCF certified Kubernetes distribution, is a fully integrated suite for the development and deployment of cloud native applications.
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Is an oVirt-based management tool to configure, monitor, and manage an Oracle Linux KVM-based environment.
Ksplice – Oracle acquiredKsplice Inc in 2011, and offers Oracle Linux users Ksplice to enable hot kernel patching
DTrace – As of October 2011, Oracle has begun porting DTrace fromSolaris as a Linux kernel module
OS Management Hub Is a managed service that manages and monitors the updates and patches for Oracle Linux systems through a centralized management console hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
In March 2012, Oracle submitted aTPC-C benchmark result using an x86Sun Fire server running Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.[25] With 8Intel Xeon processors running Oracle DB 11 R2, the system was benchmarked at handling over 5.06 million tpmC (New-Order transactions per minute while fulfillingTPC-C[26]). The server was rated at the time as the third-fastest TPC-C non-clustered system and the fastest x86-64 non-clustered system.[27][28]
Oracle also submitted aSPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark record using Oracle Linux andOracle WebLogic Server, and achieved both a single node and an x86 world record result of 27,150 EjOPS (SPECjEnterprise Operation/second).[29]
Cisco submitted 2 TPC-C benchmark results that run Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R2 onUCS systems.[30][31] The UCS systems rank fourth and eighth on the top TPC-C non-clustered list.[27]
In December 2010, Oracle CEOLarry Ellison, in response to a question on Oracle's Linux strategy, said that at some point in the future Oracle Linux would run on Oracle'sSPARC platforms.[32] At Oracle OpenWorld 2014 John Fowler, Oracle's Executive Vice President for Systems, also said that Linux will be able to run on SPARC at some point.[33]
In October 2015, Oracle released a Linux reference platform for SPARC systems based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.[34][35][36]
In September 2016, Oracle released information about an upcoming product,Oracle Exadata SL6-2, a database server using SPARC processors running Linux.[37][38]
On 31 March 2017, Oracle posted the first public release of Oracle Linux for SPARC, installable on SPARCT4,T5, M5, and M7 processors.[39] The release notes state that the release is being made available "for the benefit of developers and partners", but is only supported on Exadata SL6 hardware.[40]
In March 2012, Oracle announced free software updates and errata for Oracle Linux on Oracle's public yum repositories.[41] In September 2013, Oracle announced that each month its free public yum servers handle 80 TB of data, and the switch to theAkamaicontent delivery network to handle the traffic growth.[42]
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9[49]
Oracle Linux uses a version-naming convention identical to that of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (e.g. the first version, Oracle Linux 4.5, is based on RHEL 4.5). They have slightly different support lifecycles.[50]
Oracle announced on 24 September 2014 OracleOpenStack for Oracle Linux. In October 2020, Oracle deprecated support for and ceased releasing OpenStack software.
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