Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution supported by the Fedora Project. Fedora is available in a number of different editions, including: Fedora CoreOS, an automatically-updating, minimal operating system for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. Fedora Workstation for laptop and desktop computers, with a complete set of tools for developers. Fedora Server for data centers. Fedora IoT for IoT ecosystems. Fedora…
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.
We are an all-CentOS-shop, but we've done a number of things with Ubuntu and Fedora. Most of the production CentOS machines are only there because prior to that Fedora helped to blaze the trail to get there. It's been a very good platform for testing our new ideas. Ubuntu is …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux stands above Windows and Ubuntu, in my opinion, because of streamlined features, excellent support, and plethora of available documentation and user created tools.
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 …
We selected RHEL because it is a supported platform from our ISVs, because of the Enterprise-level support, and because of the long history of Open Source involved and community contributions.
For experimental use, test lab situations, or very special-purpose tasks, Fedora [Linux] is an excellent choice. We are almost exclusively a CentOS shop for our production stuff, but in labs, we take more risks with things like Ubuntu or Fedora. It's not as appropriate as CentOS for production level endeavors, but it lets us know "this is where we could be going" when we engage in r&d tasks.
RHEL is excellent for environments that do not have any specific compliance requirements, as everything works great out of the box without any additional options being needed. However, if additional compliance options are required (such as PCI-DSS or HIPAA), there are many hardening options available out of the box. Some scenarios where RHEL would not be appropriate are for environments or organizations that heavily rely on DEB or APT packages, such as Ubuntu systems.
It's not necessarily Rail specifically. It's stuff that you guys provide with rail like a satellite and insights are very useful and it really helps set it apart from other flavors of Linux, especially with insights, what you guys have now on the cloud version of it, we've been talking with our account rep for a while on things we can get out of it as compared to what it used to be, which is hosted internally in our company. It's very promising. I'm actually kind of excited about it. Help resolve a big pain point with the security department.
I've heard issues about the manifest sinking can be a pain sometimes and when you're going from an older to a newer version, sometimes the manifests can get messed up and you have to start all over again. That can be a bang. But mostly for me, I don't like typing a lot. So trying to remember on the playbooks it's plain English of what you want to do, but you still have to remember where every little bracket and every little thing goes and that's kind of annoying. So the coating aspect of it when you don't like coating is kind of a thing, but that's changing I think.
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.
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.
We are an all-CentOS-shop, but we've done a number of things with Ubuntu and Fedora. Most of the production CentOS machines are only there because prior to that Fedora helped to blaze the trail to get there. It's been a very good platform for testing our new ideas. Ubuntu is similarly positioned in our organization, but Fedora stacks up well in our environment.
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.
It's been mostly positive. We don't spend a lot on R&D stuff, but Fedora [Linux] gives us a chance to gauge where we are at in comparison to where technology is headed
We can get things rolled out very quickly and in a hybrid cloud environment for the tool systems, that's really important. And once we go to OpenShift, then we're going to start doing bare metal deploys. I'm assuming that its track record's going to stay because you need reliability and you need something that's going to be able to handle what you're going to give it. So that's an assumption on my part.
