The Open Source community has lost CentOS as one the most popular free stable Linux distributions. CentOS was one of the most popular server distributions in the world. It is an open source fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and provides the features of RHEL without the high cost associated with RHEL. It provided a good low cost option, until recently, when CentOS announced that they were killing the normal release schedule and moving all future development to CentOS Stream. CentOS 8 was suppose to be supported until 2029 but will now be discontinued by the end of 2021. With CentOS moving away from a stable release model, IT organizations are left in the dark. For years CentOS has enabled a stable and predictable environment for business critical applications. With CentOS no longer being a viable option for production use, organizations are looking at alternatives. Several new Red Hat forks are being started but only Oracle Linux is ready for prime time use today. Oracle Linux is ready to use in production, you can even migrate from an existing CentOS (or RHEL) installation to Oracle Linux without reinstalling your Operating System. Oracle Linux is the best Linux distribution on the market today. Since it was launched in 2006, it has offered Enterprise reliability at an affordable cost. Oracle Linux is 100% application binary compatible with
RHEL/CentOS so it is already 100% compatible with your existing applications, and it gives you access to some of the most cutting-edge innovations in Linux like DTrace, all for free! YES FREE!
Moving to Oracle Linux improves your security, you will get patches faster than you were receiving them from CentOS. On average CentOS averages 15+ days to get a patch released. Oracle Linux averages about ONE day. Additionally, if you pay for the support, you also gain features like support for Ksplice (Zero down time patching), Enterprise Manager ( Systems monitoring and management), and 24x7x365 PHONE and online
support. Oracle Premier Support is an all in offering, no complicated mix of add-ons. As a CentOS user, you didn’t pay for a distribution at all… at least some of your systems. It is common for organizations to use the free CentOS distribution for non-production servers, and then pay for RHEL on
production servers. With Oracle Linux, you can standardize on one distribution for all of your systems, picking the level of support you need without having to switch from one distribution to another.
For more information about Oracle Linux, please see the Mythics OL Page at; https://www.mythics.com/products-and-training/oracle-software/oracle-linux
