We performed a comparison between Flatcar Container Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."Flatcar's support is good. The version I am using is stable and allows us to make needed changes."
"The updates are the most valuable feature."
"The flexible and extensive system makes it easy to cluster, check redundancies, and perform data backups."
"Red Hat support is pretty good. They're online, so you can look up things once you have support. Their AB integration has improved. It's easy to manage storage for moving, syncing LBM, etc."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certainly more secure than AIX, which is what we had. It's also better than Solaris. It has improved from that perspective. We can handle the vulnerabilities better. It's more secure."
"The AppStream feature provides access to up-to-date languages and tools in a way that interoperates with third-party source code. It makes it a lot easier to maintain that, as well as keeps our developers happy by having newer versions of development languages available."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has good support and doesn't have many outages due to the OS."
"The solution provides more detailed control."
"The solution's SELinux feature is a gold standard for security. It also has the best ecosystem."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"There should be more upgrades to the security features."
"The price is something that can be improved, as they are still being undercut."
"The graphical user interface should be more user-friendly. It's a concern because the command line is perfectly fine."
"It is challenging to use the knowledge base and the deployment documentation."
"The solution's operating system configuration and function selection could be improved."
"It could be a bit more user-friendly. It could also be cheaper."
"The Modules feature is awesome but it could be even better."
"One challenge we've faced is with databases. Configuring and implementing DBs is much easier in non-Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, especially in Microsoft."
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Flatcar Container Linux is ranked 14th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews. Flatcar Container Linux is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Flatcar Container Linux writes "The solution is stable and allows us to make needed changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". Flatcar Container Linux is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Amazon FreeRTOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and Kali Linux.
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