Kubuntu vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

There's a lot of things that can and can't be discussed. But as I mentioned earlier, cloud computing and on-prem, and very much like in the cloud, having a standard image ISO, deploying that, the configurations with Ansible or packages installed via Ansible, instead of just a Kickstart script, you have a set of scripts that run in a pipeline that deploy Red Hat. So I'd say the environments, every time I've used Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a computing solution has been, like I mentioned, reusable, scalable, positive. And I don't think I've ever found any situations where I wish I were using something other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because the support is not there for anything else as much as it is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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• Virtualization, like the operating system level task. I see this product is very good and it blends very well with the middleware components like all the JBoss and other things. And other than that, either you install it or a virtual machine or physical servers, it works seamlessly anywhere. And if you want to go further, like Red Hat OpenShift or those things also work very nice with it.

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• Price. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) can be cheaper for us to use. We pay a lot for these software packages.
• Perpetual licensing. Buy it and forget it would be great, with support as an option. this would be a great option for products that can ship with the OS and will see little internet use.

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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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In order to securely deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) it has to be installed without a user interface. Administrative tasks through a command line interface can be challenging. Looking up commands and testing them, documentation is often required in order to run the same commands in the future if the changes are infrequent and not practiced often by an administrator.

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Product support and regular patches.

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As with any OS enhanced testing will need to be done prior to application integration.

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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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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has less content and less attractive desktop offerings, but it offers an easy to use integrated set of tools for customizing and mass deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Compared to other options, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s tooling is better and easier to work with, and has larger community adoption. The built-in image building tools aren't as nice as kiwi, but they work well enough for basic cases. The content issue is mostly fixed with adding EPEL and it's straightforward to add through the tools to deployments and images. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) made sense to select because despite the weaker content set built-in, the large community around it and the equally large ecosystem meant that filling in the gaps was straightforward and not as much of a blocker as it could have been.

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Operational ease of use backed by support

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• It has done wonders for my career because I come from a Linux background, HPUX, Solaris and AIX. So made this transition to Linux 20 years ago. So it has really put my career at the forefront of what we do in the company. We're still primarily a window shop, but with Red Hat and what they're doing with the Kubernetes integration with OpenShift, with the East Satellite Management, the Ansible stuff, all based on Red Hat. It's taken off at my company and we're very happy about it.

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