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Interesting development. What's the current difference between RHEL and Oracle Linux? Our institution used to be an RHEL shop, but switched to OL -- I just as
by gmfawcett 6y ago
Interesting development.
What's the current difference between RHEL and Oracle Linux? Our institution used to be an RHEL shop, but switched to OL -- I just assumed that RHEL was historical at this point.
[edit -- thanks for the answers. I realize now that my memory failed me... I mis-remembered that Oracle bought RedHat, not IBM.]
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoOracle Linux is RHEL... just with the Red Hat branding replaced by Oracle branding. I guess there are some other differences as well but that's the gist of it. It's mostly for Oracle products and has the oracle yum repositories preconfigured iirc. So their database products can be installed out of the box. But RHEL is considered the industry standard when it comes to corporate Linux distributions.
- gmfawcett 6y agoThanks, that helps. We're also an Oracle (database) shop, so the Oracle-specific repos are probably a plus in our case.
- nicoburns 6y agoPresumably one big benefit is not having to deal with Oracle who are infamously difficult to deal with.
- gmfawcett 6y agoAlas, for many of us that ship has already sailed. :)