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    Automotive

RHEL - Linux for the Enterprise

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
RHEL provides an easy supportable off-the-shelf product that any enterprise can deploy and know that that right management, support, and roadmap guidance will be provided to provide value to the Enterprise. Customer Service and support makes RHEL easy to implement and deploy throughout the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
RHEL's value comes from the support maintenance contract, which does add a cost to an open-source product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standardizing Linux deployments and provide commercial support, including FIPS certification


    Megan A.

Good customer support and OS works well with our product

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It provides a secure OS for my company's product. Keeps up with industry trends to stay ahead of the curve and work toward security and innovative solutions.
Customer portal is very intuitive with many tutorials allowing me to fully understand how to use the product for my needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see more support on how to transition products on RHEL to a Wayland compositor with using Xwayland for x11 native window managers. More conversation and support around this transition specifically would be very helpful to our needs with our upcoming RHEL10 transition
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and adaptability


    Utilities

Bettet support than other distros

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Redhat Support is great. THey usually respond very quicley
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really. had good experience with the company
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WE use Linux for many applications. ie billing, stores, web browser


    William W.

RHEL daily driver

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
RPM packaging. Creating my own RPMs is far easier than creating my own DEB packages. The idea just makes sense. Stability of RHEL is also big.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that RHEL locks answers to questions that people have asked behind a login screen. It feels against the spirit of open source.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has an expansive array of government accreditations that I need to perform my daily role


    Daniel C.

Trusted Base for Creating Deployable Applications

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Wide user base. Good packaging and a wide selection of packages available in the broader ecosystem. Solid documentation. Also stable to build on.
What do you dislike about the product?
The same thing that makes it stable can make it hard to use the latest tooling in the later releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a system that is Deployable in high security environments.


    Military

Linux over Windows

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The ability to customize my experience in a desktop environment in Paramount in my workflows. Development is my passion and is so much easier than on windows.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't dislikes RHEL in anyway. I only dislikes the fact that business are scared of migrating from the Windows Desktop environment to Linux.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server virtualization


    Konstantinos T.

Great to work with sometimes a pain on major upgrades

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Consistency across versions and stability
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup with subscription manager can be overwhelming
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to have consistency across infrastructure


    Financial Services

RHEL in Large Global Enterprise

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Team is collaborative, adheres to industry trends, secure, and supported. Always pushing OS in enterprise to the next level.
What do you dislike about the product?
Always works best in Red Hat ecosystem. Secondary systems are always afterthought which disadvantages users not locked into the ecosystem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business requires a supported OS image that is safe and secure. RHEL makes everything easy all in one package.


    Joshua S.

Smooth and stable

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat has in our experience always been smooth with very predictable outcomes, and has proven itself to be a stable platform to build our applications on.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes patching can be problematic, and the kernel feature set can lag behind other distros
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We uses it as the basis for our Percona Database Cluster


    sarath m.

RHEL is secured and great to use

  • May 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The security it brings to the table and it's enterprise ready
What do you dislike about the product?
The package management aspect of that needs improvement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customer use cases