Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rating: 9.2 (231 reviews)
Author: Red Hat

Overview

What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?

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

Recent Reviews

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Review

8 out of 10

February 26, 2024

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I am part of a two-man team that's responsible for the entire lifecycle of everything dealing with Linux. And we're a full Red Hat shop, …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

8 out of 10

February 26, 2024

Incentivized

We primarily started using it to help with the ECS deployment, the new VMs, and patching. So we have playbooks that focus on keeping our …

Redhat RHEL Review

10 out of 10

February 26, 2024

Incentivized

Right now, primarily, we're using it to support a tools infrastructure for a hybrid cloud solution for our company itself. We also use it …

RedHat RHEL Review

10 out of 10

February 26, 2024

Incentivized

So in our organization, we use RHEL for many things. For example, my team uses it as an image builder for AP. We use it as a file …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review

10 out of 10

February 26, 2024

Incentivized

We build high-performance computing clusters and we use RHEL as the OS of choice. Compliance is a big one. And then updates and stability. …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review

10 out of 10

February 26, 2024

Incentivized

We use it as the base for a lot of our applications and our student registration systems. I use it personally as a base for a lot of our …

All in with Red Hat Enterprise Linux !

10 out of 10

June 09, 2023

We currently use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our OS of choice for all workloads. Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses all aspect we require …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the OS distribution of choice

10 out of 10

June 06, 2023

Incentivized

RHEL is what we use for all Linux based applications, running in approximately 1000 systems, both bare metal and VMs. Standardization on a …

RHEL Review

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

Application Servers.

I'm happy using RHEL!

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

System administration and dev/ops.

RHEL Review

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

Operating System of choice for scalable digital services. When it comes to a digital transformation the underlying platforms here are all …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can't go wrong

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

We use it throughout most of our infrastructure. For now, we mostly use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and …

I'm happy using Red Hat Enterprise Linux!

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our mission critical environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the way to go. It just makes sense.

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

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Multiple applications, including Oracle, Cloverleaf, Java, MQ, web servers, etc.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux tops the rest.

10 out of 10

May 24, 2023

Incentivized

We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift to run business process workloads and to develop on.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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 work...
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 c...

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Administrator in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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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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February 26, 2024

Redhat RHEL Review

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

IBM AIX

February 26, 2024

RedHat RHEL Review

Dominic Charbonneau

Automation Architect

Bell Canada (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift

February 26, 2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review

Jessie O'Connor

Systems Architect

University of South Carolina (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

June 09, 2023

All in with Red Hat Enterprise Linux !

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights

June 06, 2023

Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the OS distribution of choice

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Directory Server

May 24, 2023

RHEL Review

William Finley

Consultant

Wolf Canyon (Wine and Spirits, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Oracle Linux, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Azure

May 24, 2023

I'm happy using RHEL!

Verified User

Team Lead in Research & Development

Research Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Windows, MATLAB

May 24, 2023

RHEL Review

Marc Hurley

System Administrator

permanent tsb (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

May 24, 2023

I'm happy using Red Hat Enterprise Linux!

Dee Mathew

Engineer in Information Technology

DFA (Investment Management, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

May 24, 2023

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the way to go. It just makes sense.

Mark Spears

System Engineer

HCA (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

IBM AIX, SecureCRT, BlueCat Gateway

May 24, 2023

Red Hat Enterprise Linux tops the rest.

Verified User

Vice-President in Product Management

Security & Investigations Company, 11-50 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Amazon Web Services

May 24, 2023

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is lasting support with a forward support model.

Verified User

Manager in Sales

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft SQL Server

May 24, 2023

I'm happy using RHEL!

Vikram Dayama

System Administrator

Fastenal (Warehousing, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Rundeck, PagerDuty, LogicMonitor

May 24, 2023

Linux.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Satellite, Rundeck

May 24, 2023

my review.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Medical Device Company, 5001-10,000 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Nutanix Unified Storage

May 24, 2023

A Review from an amateur sysadmin who has no idea what he's talking about

Verified User

Administrator in Other

Education Management Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Windows, macOS, Ubuntu Linux

May 24, 2023

I'm happy using RHEL!

Julian Mascia

Tech Lead

Telecom Argentina (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Virtualization

May 24, 2023

Newbie to the environment

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, Nagios Core

May 24, 2023

Newbie to RHEL

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, IBM AIX

May 24, 2023

RHEL Just Runs

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Windows, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server

May 24, 2023

Red Hat in the legal environment

Maria Salinas

Linux Systems Administrator

Consilio (Legal Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux

May 23, 2023

RED HAT

Verified User

Account Manager in Information Technology

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Progress Chef, Tanium, Rapid7 Cybersecurity Advisory Services, Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

May 23, 2023

RHEL Review

BHANUCHANDRA KOMMALAPATI

Sr IT Engineer

Honeywell (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Contractor Foreman

May 23, 2023

Great company, great products

Pablo Szajt

Sys Admin

Manitoba Hydro (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

May 23, 2023

Love this product

James Pierce, CDCTP

Linux Admin

Chicago Trading Company (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, Tower

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