Distributions, updates and errata for Oracle Linux are now available for free

Along with the certification of some of its applications on RHEL 6 and Oracle Linux 6, Oracle announced that from now, distributions, updates and errata for Oracle Linux are available for free , including for use in a production environment.



Oracle Linux is built from RHEL source codes and is fully compatible with it, important advantages over CentOS and Scientific Linux are support from hardware manufacturers and release dates for updates that are released almost simultaneously with Red Hat.

Previously, to get updates quickly, you had to have a valid support contract that cost $ 119 per year from Oracle or from $ 349 per year from Red Hat (2 sockets, with a limit of 1 guest system).



The public repository is available at the following link:

public-yum.oracle.com

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Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and virtualization platform development at Oracle, described it this way:

The beauty is that if you want a completely updated system without support, use it, if you need support later, get a subscription. Simple, convenient, efficient.

However, do not forget about the peculiarities of the renewal of contracts for support.