Stable, Secure, But Complex for Beginners
What do you like best about the product?
I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux mainly for running servers and managing enterprise-level applications. It's great for hosting databases, web services, and virtual machines, and it gives me a stable and secure environment that's reliable for long-term projects. The support and documentation are really helpful when troubleshooting or setting up complex systems. What I like most about Red Hat Enterprise Linux is how stable and reliable it is. I don’t have to worry about unexpected crashes, and it handles heavy workloads really well. I appreciate the support and documentation—whenever I run into a problem, there’s usually a clear solution available. It just makes managing servers and enterprise systems a lot less stressful. My experience integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux with other tools has generally been positive, and I've found certain integrations really helpful—like using monitoring tools to keep track of server performance and automated backup solutions to protect data.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that could be improved with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is that it can feel a bit complex for beginners, especially when setting up or configuring advanced features. There are a lot of commands and configurations to learn, and the documentation, while thorough, can sometimes be too technical for someone. For beginners, setting up the system and managing software packages can be confusing at first, so simpler installation guides or wizards would help. Basic system administration tasks, like configuring users, networks, or security settings, could be made more intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux solves stability and security issues for me. It keeps servers running reliably, handles heavy workloads without crashing, and simplifies managing updates and patches.
A Stable, Secure Foundation for Enterprise-Grade Software Infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
What we like most about Red Hat Enterprise Linux is its stability and enterprise-grade support. The predictable release cycle, strong security updates, and wide ecosystem compatibility make it well suited for long-running, mission-critical production workloads. The initial setup is straightforward, with clear documentation and reliable installation and package management tools, allowing teams familiar with Linux to deploy systems quickly and confidently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some limitations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux include licensing costs and the overhead of subscription management. It can be less flexible than community-driven distributions for rapid experimentation, and access to the latest software versions may lag behind upstream releases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses the need for a stable, secure, and fully supported operating system in production environments. It reduces downtime and security risks through reliable updates, certified software, and enterprise-grade support, making it well suited for critical enterprise and cloud workloads.
Reliable, Secure, and Enterprise-Ready
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the market leader for Linux operating systems. It's reliable, flexible, and cost-effective. I find it strong in security and suitable for enterprise-grade applications, making it a great replacement for some legacy Unix systems. The initial setup is rather easy, and one of the benefits is that it's based on open source, which makes it more customizable and user-friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now owned by IBM after its acquisition, there are concerns about its cost effectiveness, the freedom of open source development, and the quality of customer support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux for enterprise applications, solving issues from support functions to cybersecurity management. It's reliable, flexible, cost-effective, and strong in security, suitable for enterprise applications and replacing legacy Unix systems. It's customizable and user-friendly due to its open-source base.
Mature, Stable, and Security-First: RHEL Keeps Surprises Out of Prod
What do you like best about the product?
See, I'm more into ethical hacking and security stuff so for that the only distro I primarily used is redhat. RHEL doesn’t chase shiny features. It ships mature, well-understood components. That means fewer surprise attack surfaces and fewer “oops, upstream broke prod” moments. Most distros ship SELinux and tell you to disable it. RHEL treats it as a first-class citizen.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a security guy, I dislike RHEL because it’s overly conservative. Backported patches complicate vuln validation, packages are outdated, SELinux is painful to manage, and the locked subscription model slows labs and automation. Great for defense, frustrating for real security testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL solves the problem of running secure, stable systems at scale without surprises. It gives me predictable patching, long-term support, strong defaults like SELinux, and built-in compliance alignment, so I spend less time firefighting and more time actually improving security. The benefit to me is simple: fewer production incidents, cleaner audits, and an OS I can trust to stay hardened and stable over time.
Best OS for Performance, Security, and Stability
What do you like best about the product?
This is the best OS we have used. We have been ensured its performance, security and stablity. The os is fast enough while performing complex task. Strong Product documentation and Community.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is abit strict while working in its code. The cost and its subscription management seems to be complex. It takes some time to learn to operate, but once it done its very easy to manage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
its opensource, portable and stable, secure OS to use. Easy to setup and easy to integration with other product.
Automation has reduced downtime and supports reliable zero‑disruption deployments
What is our primary use case?
I am currently working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as I administer a lot of Kubernetes clusters installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I use it as an operating system for our platform which powers all our company's software, mostly for Kubernetes or for IBM BPM or IBM PEL.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a robust operating system, and I believe it is much better than Windows. I work with Windows and Ubuntu, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the best distribution I have worked with.
The knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is excellent. Red Hat documentation is the most valuable documentation in the market.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I think the most time-saving aspects come from Red Hat Ansible because we use Ansible to automate many tasks and repetitive tasks on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows. Ansible automation and the Ansible automation platform are the most valuable products that save us time and money.
Overall, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me save time through automation using Ansible. For OpenShift, the core of containers saves time by automating the DevOps processes using the Red Hat pipeline built into OpenShift, Tekton, and source-to-image build. All of this saves us time.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps to mitigate downtime and lower risks for me, as most of my work is with OpenShift which enables us to do a zero downtime deployment. The deployment is done without any downtime. Red Hat OpenShift is a stable system. Red Hat OpenShift and Linux are very stable and the downtimes are very minimal.
What needs improvement?
I think Red Hat needs to implement more AI features in the operating system or Red Hat OpenShift.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for about 14 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very stable. The product is very stable and very mature. All issues are documented in documentation or in the support portal and support knowledge base. When I have an issue, I primarily search the knowledge base and the support portal and find the solution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a very secure operating system, and they provide security patching every month.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I find Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) scalable.
How are customer service and support?
We have many cases where Red Hat helped us with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or OpenShift, and their support is great. On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the best, I would rate the tech support a nine.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Most enterprises work on Linux, and as I am a DevOps and platform engineer, most of our systems run Linux, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and the DevOps pipeline, all working on Linux. This is why I switched to Linux.
How was the initial setup?
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the setup is very straightforward. OpenShift is a little complex, but once you do it once, you will master it.
What about the implementation team?
I performed the deployment all by myself.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When it comes to our business value, most of our customers are enterprise-grade customers from banking and government sectors, and they prefer to use an enterprise-grade operating system, not Ubuntu or CentOS. Additionally, in many cases, we need enterprise support from Red Hat as Ubuntu does not provide this.
Exceptional Reliability and Support for Enterprise Workloads
What do you like best about the product?
This is one of the best Linux distributions, offering regular updates and security patches that make it highly reliable. The support from the Linux team is excellent, and the Redhat community consistently provides outstanding assistance. In our experience, this system has managed our production workloads smoothly, with very few outages resulting from the regular upgrades performed by Redhat. This reliability has increased our confidence in using it within our enterprise environment, where we run important enterprise applications such as open source databases and Kubernetes services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, migrating users from different operating systems, such as Windows servers or various Linux distributions like Ubuntu and OpenSuse, can be quite challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can host various databases on different RHEL versions and run our enterprise applications, including open source password safe servers, without issues. These virtual machines also interact seamlessly with other services, such as cloud-native Kubernetes solutions like AKS and PaaS databases.
RHEL: The Ultimate Enterprise OS
What do you like best about the product?
RHEL, is the best OS for enterprise use,
What do you dislike about the product?
log level, easy upgradeation like green/blue
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OS and vertialisation
Using robust security and detailed documentation has improved our enterprise operations
What is our primary use case?
I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and we have a couple of customers using OpenShift, the Kubernetes platform based on Red Hat, and also Red Hat Virtualization. My first contact with the Linux platform was with Red Hat.
What is most valuable?
The best features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are its stability and the RPM, Red Hat Package Manager, which is perfect. They also deliver Satellite, a platform for updates. It is a very robust, excellent platform.
For me, and for every Linux distribution, the most important security feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is SELinux. Security is often misunderstood by others. SELinux is very important because it provides security for the kernel. Many people disable SELinux, but it is the most important and most misunderstood feature. People do not understand it. The updates and SELinux are very important to me. SELinux is very good, but it is complex, and I have seen many administrators disable it because instead of helping them, it causes trouble. For example, securing my NGINX configuration is a pain. It is a very good security option, but I would say it is excellent only if one is an expert.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) documentation is very good and very complete. Regardless of my opinion about the IBM acquisition, the documentation is excellent.
What needs improvement?
IBM committed two major mistakes with Red Hat. The first was destroying the CentOS project, which was a fork of Red Hat. The second was limiting the use of free options and restricting hardware to support Red Hat on just some limited hardware. One can use the system for free, but the statement is not entirely true because it is limited to a couple of virtual processors and I do not remember if it was 24 or 16 GB of RAM. If one goes beyond that configuration, one has to pay, and IBM is IBM. Many companies were in trouble because from one day to the next, IBM said they would no longer support CentOS and told them to move to another distribution. People had to migrate, and for that reason, there are Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and other Linux distributions that are trying to rise and taking advantage of that situation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is just for corporate companies with money to waste on licensing.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very expensive. In the case of our customers, the couple of customers with OpenShift, they have enough money to license Red Hat. They bundle Red Hat with virtualization and OpenShift packages. However, it is not suitable for an SMB company. It is not payable or affordable. For me, it is very expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a lot, though I do not remember the exact frequency.
How are customer service and support?
I have worked with Red Hat support, and it is very good because they have very good engineers. In Latin America, during my time, the support in Spanish was mostly provided by engineers from Argentina. In Colombia, I have worked with a couple of engineers from Colombia, and they were very good. I have not worked with support in English for Red Hat, only in Spanish with those engineers.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What other advice do I have?
My first Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) certification, Red Hat Certified Engineer, was for version 6, which was approximately 12 to 15 years ago.
I have tried Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Image Builder and System Roles, and it is pretty good.
I would rate the support at an eight out of ten. My overall rating for this product is ten out of ten.
RHEL - Reliable, Secure, and Resource-Efficient Server Solution
What do you like best about the product?
It is more reliable and stable and secure as compared to Windows server or other os in production or client server enviournment.It works smoothly with low hardware resource.It has lots of builtin tools and services for server management.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no much graphical interface as compared to windows server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide graphical interface.
