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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review
February 26, 2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review

Jessie O'Connor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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 network automation and monitoring systems. We have our satellite server set up so we can manage our repository of updates. We have a consistent environment for our developers across the board.
  • 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.
  • Overall, it's been absolutely positive. Again, for the reasons of being able to maintain a stable, consistent environment.
They have their own pluses and minuses, but for what RHEL eight is and for what it does, I would recommend it above anything else for an enterprise. Two, consistency and stability of the environment, making sure the packages that our developers need are available and not being updated on them in ways that they're not expecting because they expect their applications to be running on specific versions of libraries and specific versions of underlying things in the operating system that Red Hat and Red Hat satellite allow us to provide.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

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

Yes

I mentioned it provides a consistent base for our developers, for our applications. In an institution or enterprise where you want security, you want a specific type of setup to your system. Red Hat excels at that. It's not really geared toward that side of things, but we have users, I'm a power user who likes to use Linux on my daily commuter laptop and I prefer to use a Fedora or a Debian than a Red Hat just for the difficulty of configuring a specific use case like an end user would be.