In my role, I mostly use Oracle Linux for the VMs where I run my workload. Outside work, I mostly use it to run my own personal workloads, primarily my home lab setup and my own personal applications. I am trying to do the same for my home lab data center as well.

Currently, I run small-scale agents and a few dashboards on Oracle Linux, and then a few of the open-source applications that I use for replacing other proprietary applications. Most of them are containerized. There are a few dashboards that monitor the electrical systems at my home and run the smart devices as well.

I use Oracle Linux mostly from Oracle Cloud. Whenever I spin up a VM for almost any sort of work, I just get Oracle Linux. I have been looking into machine learning recently. Whenever I get an autonomous data center, I usually spin up and run most of the workload, like the compute part or data processing part on Oracle Linux VMs. Recently, I have been trying to spin up my own Kubernetes clusters as well to self-host it along with the other applications.

The best features Oracle Linux offers in my experience are reliability, the latest updates, and I have never faced any attacks or vulnerabilities on Oracle Linux. It is pretty stable for most of my workloads.

On the reliability side, I have run my home lab on Oracle Linux. I have done it on Ubuntu, then I have tried it on Windows as well for some time, but as far as I know, I have never broken any of my applications after an update on Oracle Linux till now. I have done it on Windows multiple times and a few times on Ubuntu.

Oracle Linux has positively impacted my organization with security, pretty much, because that is where I work on a lot. Oracle Linux is pretty secure and we have not gotten many vulnerabilities being reported from Oracle Linux workloads that we run. Oracle Linux's security has significantly reduced incidents and saved us time because every time a vulnerability shows up in one of our VMs, we would have to take measures to patch it before it can be used. Mostly, this is time-critical. We have SLAs and then we will have to patch it pretty fast, and not having vulnerabilities has saved us a lot of time.

I cannot think of anything as of now regarding improvements needed for Oracle Linux. Everything is pretty good.

A bit on the Oracle Linux user interface side could be improved, but I have not had much of an issue of my own. However, I did hear from a couple of my colleagues that they had certain difficulties on the user interface side.

I have been using Oracle Linux for close to five years now. I started around the middle of my college days, and I have been using it till now, for around five years.

Oracle Linux is pretty stable, really stable.

Oracle Linux has pretty much satisfied almost all our needs as our workloads have grown.

I have tried scaling workloads up or down on Oracle Linux a lot of times, and it is pretty good as of now. It is pretty scalable. I have not found any issues as of now.

Personally, I have not reached out to Oracle Linux customer support myself because there are colleagues who do that, but as far as I know, the customer support is really good.

I would give a rating of 10 for Oracle Linux customer support. However, this is not based on my own personal experience, but rather on that of colleagues.

When I joined this particular company, I have seen Oracle Linux mostly being used. I am not aware of what was there before.

I was not part of the evaluation of Oracle Linux options before choosing it.

This would not come under my area because I am not responsible for measuring it, but I would say that there would definitely be ROI with Oracle Linux in terms of money saved.

I can only comment from a personal point of view regarding Oracle Linux because I do not take care of pricing or the procurement for the company. From a personal point of view, I find it pretty reasonable. It is affordable for me to run my own workloads. Another point being that from Oracle Cloud, the generous free tier that I get there is really good, and then I do purchase certain services for my own purposes. However, I cannot comment for the company because I do not take care of that part.

I would say a solid eight for Oracle Linux overall for now because I still feel there could be so much that can be better. But as of now, a solid eight. It is really good, and I would love to see it getting even better from here.

I would not say I did not give a 10 for Oracle Linux because it is not a 10. I just gave it an eight because I would like to see it way beyond that. If I were to give a 10, then I would want it to be a 12.

Others looking into using Oracle Linux should try it out first and get hands-on experience before making any decisions. Maybe what they read or what they hear might not fully explain what Oracle Linux can do. I suggest that they try it out themselves and then go for it. My overall rating for this review is 8.