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Oracle Linux is essentially re-badged Red Hat Linux. It's fine, if you don't mind being in bed with Oracle. For me the choice between Red Hat, Oracle, or CentOS would come down to what is supported by the applications I am going to run, licensing, and licensing interactions.

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But is it really? Oracle packages it's own "unbreakable" kernel and some additions quite deviate from RHEL. Have you been running Oracle Linux yourself? If so I am really interested in your experiences.

The kernel is it’s own optional package that’s basically 4.14.

The additional stuff is like, newer php, golang, etc. They also mirror EPEL and build it themselves.

There are other repos you can get these yourself on CentOS.

The one advantage of OL is that they historically got security updates out before CentOS. Not sure how that looks these days.

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