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    krishna k.

Title: A Rock-Solid Foundation for Enterprise IT: Red Hat Linux Review

  • September 27, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
red Hat Linux, a distribution of the open-source Linux operating system, has long been a cornerstone of the enterprise IT landscape. As an avid user and administrator of Red Hat Linux, I can confidently say that it continues to excel in providing a secure, stable, and versatile platform for businesses of all sizes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dependency Management: Dealing with dependencies can sometimes be complex.

Learning Curve: It has a steeper learning curve, especially for newcomers.

Community vs. Enterprise: Features may lag between Fedora (community) and RHEL
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux solves the problem of providing a stable and secure foundation for mission-critical enterprise systems. Its benefits include enhanced reliability, robust security measures, and dependable support, which ensure uninterrupted operations and peace of mind for businesses.


    Education Management

A secure OS

  • September 24, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The regular updates from the RHEL gives the secure environment and also RHEL provides the LTS for the releases.

It also has a compatibility with wide range of tools and software.
What do you dislike about the product?
As it is widely used OS in the current IT ecosystem but due to cost/licensing fees has a major drawback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have configured master slave architecture for the cluster nodes for processing the high computational work.


    Shanker R.

Best Enterprise Level Server Class Operating System

  • September 24, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Stable and robust operating System to host Industry standard enterprise business applications, excellent performance, strong security features, scalable, user administration is simple, no headache of frequent security patches, compatible with Hyper converged and vmware ESX environments. Entire OS can be controlled through command line and now GUI has also improved. Best for hosting DNS and bulk email and sms services. Uptime is better than Microsoft OS. Hardening features are stronger than Microsoft OS.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not compatible with Microsoft apps. OS Licensing is becoming expensive. Upgrade of OS version is not straight forward and have kernel level dependencies most of the time and because of which even application version can be upgraded. Staff skills shortage. Not friendly with cloud environment specially azure cloud. Command line features needs improvement as compared to microsoft power shell. Most of the antivirus software are not compatible except few.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are hosting trading business frontend and back office applications purchased from applications vendors on this OS, also hosting dns services and bulk email services.


    DAKSH P.

An enterprise's strength

  • September 21, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
A really amazing UI by Red Hat linux
We don't have to really worry about our data as it secures our data very efficiently
It also provides a comfortable environment to a user and can be really helpful for enterprises.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest dislike about this is its way too expensive. Like other Linux softwares it's not open source and hence charge fees
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The most benefiting thing about this software is its capability to ensure security of data. For a big Enterprise their data is the most important thing for them and red hat never fails.


    Sid P.

Best OS for server

  • September 21, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I have been using this OS for our company's internal server due to it's features and since it in Linux-based, virus attack chances are very low in it. Along with that the management options in this OS very amazing due to its functionalities and ease of management.
What do you dislike about the product?
It comes with a very high price and not all people know how to use it, so we need to provide training to are team members.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using it for my company's internal server creation for file sharing using NextCloud setup done on it.


    RAVI T.

Versatile Platform

  • September 20, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is free from vulnerabilities and no worry about virus
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to be proficient or skillful about its feature in using it or to work with it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL providing a free platform to develop your use case or to host your application in more seemless way


    Padmakar B.

The ups and lows of Redhat linux

  • September 16, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The capabilities, economy of owning it, scalabiity
What do you dislike about the product?
Reliability, Support levels from Redhat is a concern
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using redhat linux as an operation systems for various application servers and webservers where non-windows operating systems are supported by the application vendor.


    Mahmud H.

The best solution for Enterprise systems(cloud)

  • September 16, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The awesome support and the community backed applications make red hat the most popular OS to install hypervisors on. The stability of this OS makes for a very reliable option for any company.
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of the features of this OS is hidden behind a license paywall, so if without license there is very low benefits of running this instead of a more open source OS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red hat Enterprise is used as a base OS for hypervisors, we usually use VMware esxi on top of this to create multiple virtual machines for our cloud. Being highly stable it provides reliability as well as good support for our system overall.


    Jay D.

RHEL is fantastic operating system designed by Redhat

  • September 08, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like the most about RHEL is package management and system daemon to manage and control in a way profetional way.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm using RHEL OS since 10 years and every components runs very smoothly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL operating system is compatible with most of all applications and languages to managa business professionally.


    Jainesh K.

Stable and reliable with excellent customer support

  • August 31, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
- Provides very good customer support which is essential for a a business looking for uninterrupted services.
- Provides regular patch releases for security updates
-Red hat Linux is certified for the cloud making it more reliable
- It has built-in security features which aid in the overall security of the environment
- It supports newer technologies which is quite helpful for businesses evolving at a faster pace.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Upgrading from one version to another version could have been easier.
- TOP command could be more user-friendly.
- Sometimes It could be difficult to find packages
-Overall Its good and I don't see much issues using it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Better security for the application running on the OS
- Very good customer support is available for enterprise users which is quite helpful
- It is well documented even for the new users.
- OS Updates are available on regular intervals with required security patched in between