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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.

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10 out of 10
February 26, 2024
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 Virtual Disk Optimizer (VDO) Demo.

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What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.


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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • 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.
  • 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.
February 26, 2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • For us, it's going to be the deployment and the patching. It does a good job because you can put your no reboot tags and things like that because working with production systems and so we don't want them just rebooting suddenly because they were patched in the Linux world. So the non-reboot tags and the operating system deployment is the biggest thing we find that saves time and that's the biggest thing that we like. The tools. The tools that save time.
  • 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.
February 26, 2024

Redhat RHEL Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Runs applications pretty well. It's quite configurable. I'm trying to think of specifics. She works with automation very, very well. Some of the vulnerability fixes and so forth. The way it's integrated within the whole entire Red Hat ecosystem, works pretty well too. So there's rolling out the software and the things that they're given in other OSS, there's a whole lot of hoops you got to go through RHEL, it's not there. So I hope that was specific enough.
  • From an automation perspective. RHEL is really moving forward, but some of their ideas are still not ideas, but their implementations of it still feel half-baked, like the functionality's there, but it's not the kind of functionality that to me makes it a full-on solution with OpenShift in particular as we're bringing this in and we're getting more into containers because it's more important for the banking industry and other industries. Justice General, well you can do this by script and we don't have an interface for this and sort of things sort of like that. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that RHEL does that bothers me as a general rule.
February 26, 2024

RedHat RHEL Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The file server is pretty efficient. The SMB package patching is very efficient as well. There's no need to reboot. There's a much more better throughput than on Windows and it's mandatory for building execution environments for Ansible. And does that pretty well.
  • We need to use a specific package for antivirus from a third party and it is very complex to automate because we need to change the boot settings of the machine. If there was a way to change the boot configuration from inside the machine, just reboot instead of doing it from the kernel level, it would be very efficient. But that's a very specific use case that's not common and might not even happen in real-time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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  • Documentation is good. There's a lot of troubleshooting, there are a lot of examples. I think that's good. There's a lot of help around compliance and security issues.
  • Use. Licensing. Licensing in the Red Hat portal is very, very difficult. It's very hard to track our licenses and make sure that we get them done correctly and we don't want to use the satellite server. Yeah, so that's it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Runs, I mean, it's absolutely solid. It's easy to patch. We have our patching schedules all set up and through Red Hat satellite, everything just goes right off.
  • Personally, I've always struggled with secure Linux SE Linux. I've run into issues where I'm just trying to stand up a simple DHTP service and it takes maybe 30 minutes of work it has in the past and it's just as much a failing on my part being new. But it's taken a lot of work to get things running when SE Linux is trying to keep things secure and no, I don't want to listen on these courts. I know you've told me to, but I'm going to do my own thing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Security
  • Stability
  • Availability of the most up to date releases of the general population of the packages. Though it is better these days than it was a few years ago.
  • Cockpit is a good idea, but it is lacking API option, which could be an invaluable feature to have.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • System resource management. Software doesn't over use hardware resources and bad behaved software generally doesn't crash other software.
  • Software development. Easy to install many languages and write and compile code in those languages.
  • Device communication. Its easy to get and use drivers that communicate with serial, or networked, etc. devices.
  • It could be easier to determine dependencies of some packages and find the dependent packages.
  • It could be easier to configure some of the packages that are configured in the GUI, from the command line, like nmcli.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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  • It is well documented and supported
  • It is a leading OS, and therefore has a great user community
  • Wide variety of apps and app vendors
  • Maybe a native GUI - not on the console - for my Windows users (who think the whole world should be like Windows)
  • There is really not much that Red Hat Enterprise Linux does badly
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Stable work environment
  • Constantly improving and adding new offerings to make it more useful
  • Open source driven community
  • Security features for containers and orchestration are limited in run time
  • It is not always clear when new features/components are being delivered
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP/HANA and SAP Applications
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High Availability for NFS file system workloads
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Enterprise MSSQL with Regional Failover
  • Security update process for packages including in core
  • Support for non-standard integrations where there is significant market opportunity
  • Support for BTRFS
May 24, 2023

Linux.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User Friendly.
  • OS updates on a regular basis.
  • Security patches.
  • CPU management.
  • Memory management.
  • The top command can be more user-friendly.
May 24, 2023

my review.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • security
  • reliability
  • compatibility
  • Command changes.
  • More and more tools make things more complex, even though they are meant to ease things.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very easy to make system changes in the command line compared to other operating systems.
  • It is easy to automate the processes to make system changes.
  • its extremely malleable which makes it easy to meet my requirements.
  • it can be difficult to find dependencies since i work mostly in classified spaces.
  • it can be difficult to use things like pam
  • it is hard to get a kickstart to work easily in the classified space
May 24, 2023

Newbie to RHEL

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • RHEL is highly available
  • More secure than other linux systems
  • Downloading RPMs for installation
  • How the firewall on the server is used with internal firewall
  • Combine all contracts with one subscriptions
May 24, 2023

RHEL Just Runs

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Install & Configuration
  • Management and Automation
  • Community Contribution
  • Availability of newer versions of packages
  • Wider selection of packages
  • Automation of AD integration
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