AlmaLinux OS vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

I would say for enterprise server management for just essentially servers that don't require GUI or that you want to run in a kind of secure, standalone fashion. I think it does become difficult with integrating with different identity providers. So that can be a pain point as far as integration with active directory or any kind of ldap. But I would say as far as just being able to provide confidence that you're deploying a secure product from the outset and that it serves the needs of the different infrastructure as far as compatibility with a lot of software that's built on the platform. So I think it's really helpful for serving that server software in the cloud or on virtual machines wherever.

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• Outstanding stability. Some air-gapped systems have been online for several months without any intervention.
• Timely updates. Red Hat owns and supports RHEL, so package updates, including applicable errata, are released very quickly.
• Amazing Package Manager. The DNF/yum package manager, along with the Red Hat AppStream and BaseOS repositories, features many up-to-date package versions and a wide variety of packages.

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• Well, one of the things, this ties right back to my previous answer from what it sounds like, the cloud platform for Insights doesn't currently have an easy way to generate CVE compliance reports, or do scans for where you have remediations required, but it does not currently produce those reports in a way that I could just hand off to our security team and be like, here's our compliance, here's where all the things are specifically because Red Hat does backporting of patches and a lot of security tools don't know how to handle that and think that we're vulnerable when we're not. So from everything I've heard, it's possible. That's why I'm excited for it. But it's not easily pushed button generated report yet. So we're working with them to get that in there.

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We find RHEL to be a superior OS with stable operations and long life. It is also easier to use and fix then most other OS's.

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RHEL has most of the features that are required by an ERP solution. If you need any additional packages, RHEL has a great repository and a very easy package installation/upgrade process.

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Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.

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Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.

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The biggest thing about RHEL that makes it stand out for enterprise users is the support that we get from the vendor. Whereas with the other ones, you're basically left on your own. There's no official repo, there's no satellite for patching. You're very left on your own with the community.

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• It's only been positive and like I said before, it's been positive because it removed tedious tasks and I think that's probably what it's designed to help do from what I can tell is just to get rid of the mundane tasks of a systems administrator. The things that you just don't want to waste time doing so you can actually use your brain for something useful.

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