Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux 8
DeveloperOracle Corporation
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial release4.5 / 26 October 2006 (2006-10-26)
Latest release9.3[1] Edit this on Wikidata[2] / 15 November 2023 (15 November 2023)
Marketing targetEnterprise and Cloud computing
Update methodYUM (PackageKit)[3]
Package managerRPM Package Manager
PlatformsIA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM64[4]
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
Default
user interface
GNOME and KDE (user-selectable)
LicenseGNU GPL & various others.
Official websiteoracle.com/linux

Oracle Linux (abbreviated OL, formerly known as Oracle Enterprise Linux or OEL) is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006.[5] It is compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code, replacing Red Hat branding with Oracle's. It is also used by Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems such as Oracle Exadata and others.

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's Oracle Linux Support program aims to provide commercial technical support, covering Oracle Linux and existing RHEL or CentOS installations but without any certification from the former (i.e. without re-installation or re-boot).[5][7][clarification needed] As of 2016 Oracle Linux had over 15,000 customers subscribed to the support program.

  1. ^ Simon Coter (15 November 2023). "Oracle Linux 9 Update 3 is now generally available, as expected!". Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Oracle Linux 9 Update 2". Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Oracle Public Yum Server". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  4. ^ Miller, Avi. "Announcing Oracle Linux 7 for ARM". Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Oracle Linux FAQ" (PDF). Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  6. ^ "Fast, Modern, Reliable Linux at a Fraction of the Cost of Red Hat". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Switching from Red Hat Network to Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)". Retrieved 17 April 2015.

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