Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review
May 21, 2025

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Red Hat is used for a large number of general purpose workloads, application servers, web servers and other use case. It is a backbone of the company.

Pros

  • Stability - servers need little aside from routine upkeep
  • Ease of automated deployment
  • Automation tasks when used.

Cons

  • Upgrade process, though this was addressed in RHEL 7 --> 8 there is room for improvement.
  • Availability of documentation. Keeping the RH knowledge base behind a paywall has hurt adaptation by younger future users/admins/
  • Ease of signup for developer programs, you often have to dig to find it and they are not well known among younger and future admins
  • The last negative impact was the post IBM changes to RH Satellite licensing.
  • Low cost of deployment has always served us well.
Nothing is perfect, you will have to be happy with a 9 :)

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

I use Red Hat for most work related workloads however for personal uses I stay in the family but use Fedora. I am happy to discuss my experence with Red Hat Enterprise Linux but mine goes back 30 years to Red Hat Linux and is best done in person.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Feature Ratings

Operating System
8.5
Resource Allocation
9
File Management
7
Hardware Device Management
9
Software Application Management
8
System Update Frequency
9
Operating System Security
9

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