What is Oracle Linux?
Oracle Linux is a robust and versatile open-source operating system that has been freely available for over 14 years, providing businesses and individuals with a reliable and cost-effective solution for their computing needs. This operating system is 100 application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), allowing seamless integration with existing systems and applications
Highlights
- Fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), enabling businesses to leverage their existing investments and expertise
- Offers a choice of two kernels: the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK), both supported by Oracle
- UEK provides extensive performance and scalability improvements to the process scheduler, memory management, file systems, and the networking stack
- Publishes the UEK source code, including the original mainline changelog and Oracle's own changelog, on GitHub for increased transparency
- Delivers a comprehensive suite of virtualization, management, automation, and cloud-native computing tools, all in a single, easy-to-manage support offering
- Supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, allowing businesses to optimize their IT infrastructure and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Enables hardware-accelerated memory encryption for securing active data stored in RAMs, CPU caches, or CPU registers
- Provides a tracing framework, DTrace, to help developers monitor and analyze the behavior of the operating system and user programs