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Red Hat Linux: for when you just want it to work and keep on working!
December 24, 2019

Red Hat Linux: for when you just want it to work and keep on working!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

We use RHEL 7 across our whole organization. It's a rock-solid, well-supported operating system that is our OS of choice when it comes to Linux. It's used by multiple departments to address multiple problems, from security to database to logging. It's very easy to maintain and support, and it's also very secure.
  • Secure. It's secure by default, and you can harden it even further.
  • Supported. Support from Red Hat is excellent.
  • AWS licensing model isn't great, that needs some work.
  • Updating needs some work to get set up properly.
  • Reliable
  • Stable
Red Hat is much more compatible and guaranteed stable. We selected Red Hat because of this, but mostly because third-party Linux products are just going to work with Red Hat, with no need to spend time trying to make them go. Also, it's management tools are now quite good and integrate well with Ansible.
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.

Do you think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) again?

Yes

If you're running Linux in the enterprise, Red Hat should be your first choice. It's well-supported and third-party products for Linux will be designed to work with Red Hat. They may behave differently and less stably under other Linux operating systems—McAfee, I'm looking at you here! If the question is "Will x work with this flavor of Linux?", with Red Hat, the answer is always a Yes.