Oracle Linux

This repository provides tips, scripts, tools, and examples for developers and operators to get started with Oracle Linux.

Getting started with Oracle Linux

Download Oracle Linux

• Download Oracle Linux binary and source media for x86_64 and Arm (aarch64) architectures.
• Download Oracle Linux for Raspberry Pi.
• Download individual packages and updates from Oracle Linux yum server.

Convert CentOS to Oracle Linux

Looking to switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux? Head over to the centos2ol repo for a script designed to automatically switch a CentOS instance to Oracle Linux.

Help

• The Issues section of this GitHub repository
• Stackoverflow. Use the oraclelinux tag.
• Oracle Linux topic on Oracle Communities
• Linux topic on Cloud Customer Connect
• My Oracle Support

Container images

• Download official Oracle Linux base images published on GitHub Container Registry.
• Download developer-oriented images to run your application code and or connect to Oracle Database
• Build your own container images for Oracle commercial products and Oracle sponsored open source projects using these sample Dockerfiles.

Vagrant boxes and projects

• Download Oracle Linux Vagrant boxes
• Explore Vagrant projects that provision Oracle and other software automatically

Build your own Oracle Linux images

Need to build custom Linux images for VirtualBox, KVM, Oracle Cloud or other clouds? See these scripts to build Oracle Linux images

Explore Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SDK and CLI examples

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provisioning shell script using the OCI Command Line Interface
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provisioning python script using the OCI Python SDK

Create your own RPMs

Learn recommended practices for creating RPM packages for your software.

Learn how to use Oracle Linux

• Oracle Linux 8 tutorials
• Oracle Linux 8 learning paths
• Oracle Linux 8 hands-on labs(login required)

View Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel source code

See the source code for UEK, including every patch.

Read the documentation

• Oracle Linux documentation home.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions from the community. Before submitting a pull request, please review our contribution guide

Security

Please consult the security guide for our responsible security vulnerability disclosure process

License

Copyright (c) 2019, 2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Released under the Universal Permissive License v1.0 as shown at https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl/.