Oracle Linux is an open-source operating system available under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). Suitable for general purpose or Oracle workloads, it benefits from rigorous testing of more than 128,000 hours per day with real-world workloads and includes unique innovations such as Ksplice for zero-downtime kernel patching, DTrace for real-time diagnostics, the powerful Btrfs file system, and more.
Oracle Linux is released under the GPLv2. See the LICENSE
file in this repository for more information.
Oracle provides support to Oracle Linux subscription customers via the My Oracle Support portal. The Oracle Linux Docker images are covered by Oracle Linux Basic and Premier support subscriptions. Customers should follow existing support procedures to obtain support for Oracle Linux running in a Docker container.
For users without an Oracle Linux support subscription, the following resources are available:
- The Oracle Technology Network Community
- The Oracle Linux Space on OTN.
- The Containers and Orchestration Space on OTN.
- The
#oracle-linux
IRC channel on Freenode.