Oracle Linux
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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.
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Developer | Oracle Corporation |
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OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | 4.5 / 26 October 2006; 17 years ago (2006-10-26) |
Latest release | 9.4[1] [2] / 6 May 2024; 17 days ago (6 May 2024) |
Marketing target | Enterprise and Cloud computing |
Update method | YUM (PackageKit)[3] |
Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
Platforms | IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM64[4] |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Default user interface | GNOME and KDE (user-selectable) |
License | GNU GPL & various others. |
Official website | oracle.com/linux |
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[update] Oracle Linux had over 15,000 customers subscribed to the support program.