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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) review

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

We are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as OS on all of our compute and protocol nodes on our high performance computing cluster. WE need a stable and reliable product that could work under heavy load.

Pros

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very good in stability and reliabilty
  • very convenient package manager

Cons

  • Network manager sometimes work not enough well
  • We have roughly 99, 9% failures due to to application not to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Stability is greatly improved
It is perfect for administrators but sometimes tough for end user because of not optimal GUI
It is more reliable than CentOS Stream and others. Also Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has a convinent support.

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

It is well suited for developement process and HPC particularly.
It is less appropriate for users who need a GUI functionality.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Feature Ratings

Operating System
7.3
Resource Allocation
8
File Management
6
Hardware Device Management
5
Software Application Management
8
System Update Frequency
8
Operating System Security
9

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