Oracle Linux 7 comes with MySQL yum repository pre-installed. By Default MySQL 8 repository is enabled. You can disable MySQL 8 repository and enable MySQL 5.7 repository to install MySQL 5.7. You can find enabled repositories with command yum repolist all | grep -i mysql Example [root@sql2 ~]# yum repolist all | grep -i mysql … Read more
Oracle Linux is Free 100% binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, same as CentOS. Unlike RHEL, Oracle Linux is free even for commercial use. Oracle only charges if you need support. Oracle provides a script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol This script support CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8. Before you can … Read more
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