Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reviews
What do you like best?
Most secured frequent Errata updated and reliable operating system. Without any second thought we can give our suggestion to chose Red Hat. All the major applications in our environment is running with Red Hat and it is more secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The cost of the support is little high but the service is awesome.If we compare their level of support and cost, we can ignore the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The flexibility, security and simplicity of the linux operating system. Its flexible in how you have innumerable ways you can manage and manipulate it. You have access to a lower level of the OS code than you do with say windows. Its more intuitive at a deeper level than with windows. It has greater security just due to the fact that fewer coders write malicious software for linux. General home users use windows. Oh, and I forgot, IT'S FREE! You can pay for support but you have the choice. Uptime is better with Linux than Windows, updates require fewer reboots than with Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
There are a lot of applications that are written or optimized for windows from a end user-desktop perspective. So depending on usage, and requirements you may be better off using Windows/mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
1. The Upstream is the reference and gold standard for Enterprise Linux worldwide
2. Prompt technical support
3. State-of-the-art install and deploy services and frameworks
4. Openstack and various Cloud OS supports
5. Prompt action to CVE's and excellent support for security patches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
1. Expensive to license
2. Expensive to maintain especially for large clusters
3. Very conservative approach to kernel and driver package upgrades and updates
4. Lags behind on many bleeding edge features due to older kernels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The main goal of this platform is security and stability. Another benefit is the long life of the distributive. After you set up your environment, you can forget about upgrades and migrations for at least 5 or even 10 years.
The system is well documented, you can find system admin easily because this system is defacto standard here in the US. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Included repositories are not covered all use cases. To install some missing packages you forced to use a 3rd party repository, I hate it because it makes potential vulnerability.
Admin training and admin certification are pricey, I would say. Employers asked about RHEL certificates, which makes a headache for the admins.
I believe admin certification should be much cheaper, loyal certified admins will propagate RHEL to all businesses they are served. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is Linux/Unix, so with regards to configuration, if you can imagine it and are a skilled Linux/Unix adminstrator, you can probably get creative make it happen. Or, if you're not a seasoned command-line user, the GUI is excellent for a junior-level administrator. Plus it is rock solid stable and efficient with computing resources.
Finally, Red Hat's support site and customer support are second to none. You get quick personalized attention when opening a case, and it's very easy to escalate a case in the web support portal (there's a button to click and escalate). Also, something I really like about their support portal is that as you type in your problem description, you get a Google-like search result list displayed showing possible relevant links to knowledgebase articles/solutions for your issue. In fact, I have solved some issues by this method and have ended up not needing to open a support case, after all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Official documentation for a specific area is sometimes hard to find on Red Hat's web site and elsewhere. As stated above, one good way to find documentation is to "pretend" you are opening a support case, enter your problem description, and see what search results appear automatically. Unfortunately for me, a regular knowledgebase search on the site doesn't seem to be as productive with relevant results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
rpm based distributive.
Open source
Distributive developed for the commercial clients.
RHEL server version support x86-64 architecture.
RHEL subscription is available for free on development purposes
Has academic and student additions for desktop and workstation machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
1 year RHEL subscription is not cheep.
You can get latest security pathing update only if you have the subscription enabled.
If you don't have active subscription you also can not upgrade to lates distributive version.
If you don't have active subscription you can not use RHEL forum and portal.
All based and linked on a subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
RHEL is our primary operating systems that we implement in data centor for our organization. We generally use it for our database server and data server.
We reffer our customer to install Linux operating system host their application securely and safe protection. The server performance is getting well and no any abnormal high CPU and RAM utilization.When users prefer RHEL, it is typically the first or only Linux distribution that is compatible.
Linux distribution is supported by Red Hat for enterprise customers. RHEL is a solid server for some essential network services, such as NFS, DNS, SMTP, Apache, Tomcat, etc., in addition to running third-party applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Little bit har to upgrade the major versions.
Some hardaware compatibility with the server.
Cost is high for some licence.
Upgration quite tricky and we have to well prepare before dooing the activity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Runs our high use servers flawlessly. Easy to repair. Stable OS. Releases security patches quickly.
Compatible with many third party applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Graphical Representation has to be more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Red Hat offers great support and their education and certificate options are second to none. The company has a rich history and thus far it appears as though IBM is going to allow them to continue without meddling. It appears that their entry into containerization is well thought out. I also liked the length of time they support their releases -- this is important if you don't need to kep on the bleeding edge of distributions and value stability over feature set. In this way you don't sacrifice security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
We found that we were having to compile too much software that we could get pre-packaged using a debian/Ubuntu distribution. Support, while very good, did cost more than from Canonical. Automated patching was not easy or straightforward for us without significant work and customization. There are some specialized packages, especially dealing with image and pdf conversions, which are much easier to install and keep up to date on debain based operating systems. We found that this ease of updating was more important to us in many cases than the other benefits Red Hat provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives a really great experience if one wants to work at the administrator level, controlling the operating system very closely. Many other operating systems provide great user experience but not many let you control them at the level that this operating system lets, at the administrator level, allows you configure so much.
One of the best thing is the support from the Red hat Community that you get, it compensates for so many other factors, one for example price.
If one wants to learn about the various OS features while being able to control so much of the OS, this is a great recommendation.
Kudos for Red Hat Community! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
One thing that can be considered a dislike could be the price. Apart from the price, there are some softwares that it does not support. Linux is a kernel whereas Red Hat is a distribution of that Kernel, so the size is comparatively large and thus compatibility is an issue in some cases. But there are other factors which nullify all of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
List of Services and functionalities protocols servers availability for approximately all third party platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
RedHat Linux dislike are none but if you consider client and server OS, it is not user friendly comparatively other platforms like Microsoft Windows Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
redhat comes with great range of security sollutions and application hosting availability and most of ythe industry tools are supported by redhat. rhel 7 is updated with systemd and many other advanced OS level changes to improve the perfomance. in recent times redhat also started working on containerized solutions and environmemnts. it was rhel5 when oi started learning it first and it have grown alot and really came over the limitations it had in the past. overall redhat enterprise linux is one of the best linux distribution in industry.
overall a great OS solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
rhel is not a free and open source operation system. you always have to pay for the licence. when you are running rhel on cloud platforms it is a really great sollution but you will end up paying more then the required ammount. we would like rhel to reduce the licence fee in pendamic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Very robust and secured operating system. Can be used with GUI enabled. Paid users can get the most out of it. The SELinux security system is the best server-grade security system that I have found so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The repository is not very rich. The community also is not responsive and not rich. If any critical issue occurs, RedHat support is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is a multiplatform product, it has adequate support, it supports several critical level applications, it is a good option for the deployment of any application.
It is supported on various virtual and hardware platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The cost of the product, and the complexity of implementing control tools, it is necessary to have advanced knowledge to carry out a correct deployment of some fairly complex application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Red Hat Data Services
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Directory Server
Red Hat Certificate System
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Any other software available as an RPM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
I see it pretty often, people discussing Linux servers and people start hating on RPM-based Linux distributions like RHEL or CentOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Command are easy and very customized with a wide range of options. We can get what we want easily.
Based on the output it can be redirected to any file.
Secure and manageable.
Easy access and free.
Open source software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Help options and error codes. Also the view can be improved in gui. And rhel 7 security and se linux can be more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Cpu memory usages very good, don't have package issue, also very good working with your application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It's little bit experience, leseance and package download subscription little bit expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The great support you receive from IBM/Redhat. Also this OS is the best to work with in the enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The downside it would be the support cost, even if it's great support is a little bit expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.