Oracle Linux 9 Now Available for VPS Servers

We are happy to to announce the arrival of Oracle Linux 9. Highly-anticipated Oracle Linux 9 brings with it numerous performance, security and development improvements…and now deploying on Oracle Linux VPS Servers.

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What is Oracle Linux?

Noteworthy: IBM acquired Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2019. Shortly thereafter, RHEL announces CentOS Linux would no longer be supported in it’s previous form. CentOS Stream would provide upstream service for RHEL, effectively reversing the roles completely.

Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. It is compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code, replacing Red Hat branding with Oracle’s.

What’s new in Oracle Linux 9.2?

Oracle Linux 9.2 provides notable changes/new features:

• FRRouting is a cloud-native build and release tools tailored to building, releasing and maintaining Linux distributions and forks that makes it’s debut in Oracle Linux 9.x
• DNF Includes an offline-upgrade Command
• synce4l Package for Frequency Synchronization Added
• samba Updated to Version 4.17.5
• Libreswan Updated to Version 4.9

For full documentation: Oracle Linux 9.2 Release Notes

How to Deploy Oracle Linux 9 VPS?

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OS Templates Overview

Please find an updated list of templates available for KVM VPS installations below.

Existing Linux VPS Templates

• AlmaLinux 8 (64 bit)
• AlmaLinux 9 (64 bit)
• Rocky Linux 8 (64 bit)
• Rocky Linux 9 (64 bit)
• Oracle Linux 8 (64 bit)
• CentOS 7 (64 bit)
• CentOS 8 (64 bit)
• Debian 8 (64 bit)
• Debian 9 (64 bit)
• Debian 10 (64 bit)
• Debian 11 (64 bit)
• Debian 12 (64 bit)
• Fedora 30 (64 bit)
• Fedora 32 (64 bit)
• Fedora 34 (64 bit)
• openSUSE 13.1 (64 bit)
• openSUSE 15.1 (64 bit)
• Scientific Linux 7.4 (64 bit)
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64 bit)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64 bit)
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (64 bit)

New VPS Templates

• Oracle Linux 9 (64 bit)

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this update, we encourage you to contact us for support.

For the most updated list of OS templates available, please check the KVM VPS Servers page.

Further Reading:

• Oracle website
• Oracle Linux VPS
• Oracle Linux 9 Announcement