Oracle Linux 9 with GNOME Desktop

Overview

Oracle Linux 9 with GNOME Desktop is Oracle Linux 9, Oracle's enterprise distribution, binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, with the distribution's own desktop added: the AppStream environment group that Oracle calls Server with GUI. Oracle publishes the binaries, updates and errata at no cost and permits redistribution, so there are no licence fees and no subscription is required; a paid Oracle Linux Support subscription is optional. Remote access uses TigerVNC from Oracle's own AppStream repository, the first party way to run headless GNOME desktops on this release, so each user gets their own full GNOME session on the virtual machine, reached with any VNC viewer through an SSH tunnel, with Files, Terminal, Firefox, Text Editor, System Monitor and Software ready to use.

The image boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default and also carries the Red Hat compatible kernel. Like every Oracle Linux image on Azure, this image uses an LVM root layout, with the root filesystem on a logical volume inside the volume group rootvg.

It suits cloud workstations for enterprise Linux development, graphical administration and data tools that should run close to your cloud resources, training labs that need a RHEL 9 compatible desktop for each user, and a secure jump desktop that exposes nothing but SSH. Oracle Linux 9 has Premier Support to June 2032 and Extended Support to June 2035, and anything else you need installs with dnf.

Common uses

• Cloud workstations with a full GNOME desktop on an enterprise Linux binary compatible with RHEL 9
• Graphical administration, engineering and data tools running close to your cloud resources
• Per user training desktops and secure jump desktops reached only through an SSH tunnel

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.