We performed a comparison between Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: RHEL excels in setup, integration, security updates, and application support. However, it falls short in terms of documentation, pricing, and customer support. SUSE Linux Enterprise is praised for its simplicity, flexibility, user-friendliness, and customer support. It needs improvement in GUI, pricing competitiveness, and integration.
"I like the speed of the OS data and the ease of Ansible automation. I don't need to spend much time managing everything."
"It is more supported and supportable in the enterprise sense than Ubuntu or perhaps a smaller distro, but it's also flexible enough to easily transport from platform to platform: ISA to ISA, production to development, and vice versa."
"It enables us to achieve security compliance. Our security team is quite happy, especially in terms of patching up our servers, etc. It's compliant with our security requirements."
"One of the main reasons we chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux was its reliability and stability. Compared to the Microsoft Windows environment, the Linux environment provided much greater stability."
"One of Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s valuable features is its enterprise-level security. We are guaranteed that it's secure, and that's important for us because we need to comply with security regulations. Security always remains a top priority."
"The most valuable thing about Red Hat is its stability, uptime, and support for various hardware vendors. Linux servers, in general, are relatively secure and they are more secure than Windows and other products."
"While using it, we encountered far fewer complexities, and the entire process is much smoother and streamlined."
"The solution provides more detailed control."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is stable."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"SUSE Linux's most valuable feature is the documentation - there is a lot of documentation about how to create custom servers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the installation part...We don't face any issues related to the operating system or application."
"It is a stable platform."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"The initial setup for most modern Linux distributions is normally straightforward. Most of the common distributions use an ncurses or GUI install."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"When there is downtime from a system admin perspective, this solution could improve how they communicate why this down time is happening."
"The product should be made available on Oracle Cloud."
"I also want the co-pilot to provide more granular control and more features in the GUI, so we can have one configuration from the GUI itself. It would be helpful to have a feature similar to the one in Windows where we can manage all the net flows from one console in a single pane of glass and install it on-premises like an admin center. It would be great if Red Hat had some kind of admin center to manage all the RHEL boxes without using an additional product like Satellite or something, we could use the co-pilot on all the systems to monitor the dashboard."
"Support for older versions of the operating system could be improved. If people can't afford to upgrade, or if they have servers that are outdated, they need to be able to provide back-field support for those."
"Could include additional security fefatures."
"Workstations: More applications for graphics."
"The price is something that can be improved, as they are still being undercut."
"It could be simplified. I'd like to see them introduce PDFs or documents to better explain technicalities to new users."
"Compared with the competition, of late actually, the solution has increased its pricing tremendously."
"When working in a Department of Defense environment, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) have to be followed. SLES is not really addressed directly here. It did make following security policy difficult."
"We previously had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE Manager, but the issue was resolved."
"The quality of support offered by SUSE Linux Enterprise is not that great, making it an area where improvements are required."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processses."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"I would like to see GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, CentOS and Oracle Linux, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Oracle Linux, CentOS and Rocky Linux. See our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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