Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.N/A
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Well I was just focused on Red Hat because my skill is infrastructure operations and that fit my skillset.
Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
We have used IBM AIX, HP Unix and compared to other flavors of Linux, I feel like the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is much better. Upgrade is easy, ease of use, security support we get from Red Hat. So all those things are better compared to whatever we have used. We also …
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So we in our company have used Ubuntu as well. Sometimes we have to use that because a certain application installer requires that we use that operating system, but we really don't prefer it just because it doesn't come with the same Add-on features that make Red Hat Enterprise …
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Dependable product and easy access to support.
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It’s flexible and lightweight with a solid security face
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It helps and can be used in red hat open shift vms.
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Lower cost ease of installation
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Solaris was stable but lacked the security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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It is a very similar OS, but it cannot be handled the same way as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). We need to check more according to the OS support, and sometimes there can be mistakes in troubleshooting similar to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but it will not work as …
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a much more mature OS. But users want Ubuntu desktop for ease of use
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Containers vs not
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Supportability
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RHEL is not only OS but a community, support, various other products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is far above the rest in reliability
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They’re all built from similar if not identical sources so they’re all compatible and often interchangable.
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better delivery of updates and features, long supported lifetime
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is easier to approve for use across the enterprise (ATO).
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For secure, easy, quickly and deployment
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Me are migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from AIX
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Small Businesses
Ubuntu
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Ubuntu
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend
Red Hat
I think it's best suited for all the monolithic application where you just need a VM and you on top of that VM you need to install a compatible product. So it's best suited for those. Where's not suited. As I said, maybe I've seen in my organization mostly our internal application teams, they go for a different operating system for appliances or network maybe it might be due to the product compatibility, not with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but that's something maybe you should have a look or probably it's not a improvement anywhere.
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Pros
Red Hat
  • I really love that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is reliable, that it always seems to work well.
  • It's very secure.
  • I really appreciate that Red Hat keeps everything up to date and they are on top of security, mobilities, et cetera. I'd say those are my favorite things.
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Cons
Red Hat
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Red Hat
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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Usability
Red Hat
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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Support Rating
Red Hat
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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Implementation Rating
Red Hat
Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.
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Alternatives Considered
Red Hat
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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Return on Investment
Red Hat
  • 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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