We performed a comparison between Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Linux ultimately won out in this comparison. Our reviewers found Oracle Linux to be easy to install and easy to use, while Oracle Solaris was less so. Oracle Linux users are also happier with the price than Oracle Solaris users. One place where Oracle Solaris did come out on top was in the realm of security.
"We are using the firewall for intrusion prevention, and it has performed well."
"The product can scale."
"I like that it's very stable and lightweight and that it requires very little resources."
"The installation is straightforward and it did not take very long."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of the commands which take little time to learn."
"It is a scalable solution."
"If we use Linux, Solaris, or some other operating systems, we have to build a lot of packages using RPMs (the packet manager). That's a difficult task. With Oracle Linux, we use a single command to update from the Oracle website."
"It provides for stable Oracle deployments."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"They should improve in the area of entertainment applications for the average user."
"We would like to see the cloud setup to be evolved, to allow for setting up of clusters of the operating system for this solution."
"The Oracle Linux graphical interface could be improved by fixing its occasional freezing on personal home laptops."
"Oracle Linux, needs to support more packages."
"I think they should also pay more attention to the open-source community."
"The support process is time-consuming as it involves several steps."
"Technical support slow to respond."
"They could introduce the same level of remote capabilities, which are available with VMware applications to build distant environments."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"The tool is quite complex and difficult for anyone trying to use or study it."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"If it could support other file systems, it would be better."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
Oracle Linux is ranked 3rd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 109 reviews while Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews. Oracle Linux is rated 8.4, while Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Linux writes "The operational system is the best and is packed with free features like CapsLive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". Oracle Linux is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server, whereas Oracle Solaris is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, CentOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise. See our Oracle Linux vs. Oracle Solaris report.
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