Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the standard among Linux distributions
May 21, 2025

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the standard among Linux distributions

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

we use RHEL for all our Linux-based applications, using a broad mix of open source software, closed source software and internally-developed software. Our core trading and clearing business run on Linux servers!
We use Linux for all our internal systems management infrastructure, except in the case where a Windows based solution is absolutely required, such as with Windows-specific network services (AD, WSUS, etc)

Pros

  • Stability
  • Wide array of available tools
  • Supports lots of new and old hardware out of the box

Cons

  • Documentation for its tools such as Ansible. The documentation for the OS itself is pretty good but many of the open source tools that Red Hat "owns" could stand to have better documentation.
  • Better support for newer versions of scripting languages and tools. Admittedly this has improved quite a bit with RHEL9.
  • I do not have numbers to share as I am not involved in those sort of discussions, but we stopped running our DB servers on Oracle Linux and moved them to Red Hat based both on cost (we had a nice site license) and dissatisfaction with Oracle's UEK kernel additions.
I have been using Linux since SLS put out floppy based "distributions" in 1992. The tools that Linux has such as Kickstart have been a tremendous plus in deploying large numbers of hosts. Red Hat's use of the standard gnu toolset makes things easier. The RPM package standard also makes packaging software easy and has tremendous flexibility to the package developer.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

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

Yes

I find RHEL much easier to deal with than debian-based distributions. RHEL is pretty much the standard for enterprise Linux which makes vendor support for 3rd party tools much better. RH might be less appropriate for organizations who cannot afford to pay for enterprise grade support. In that case I would recommend Centos or whatever RPM-based distributions are available.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Feature Ratings

Operating System
9.0
Resource Allocation
10
File Management
10
Hardware Device Management
9
Software Application Management
8
System Update Frequency
8
Operating System Security
9

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