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.
"The robust networking capabilities offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux were highly valuable. They have numerous partnerships and dedicated efforts in low-latency technologies, which are particularly beneficial for trading firms. They possess extensive expertise in external tuning and similar aspects."
"We have support. If we have any issues with the distro, we can call their support team."
"One of the most valuable features is the package manager because it makes it easier to keep everything up to date."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a good file system type and good kernels."
"RHEL's effect on our organization's management and efficiency is noticeable because we check all the compliance boxes when we run STIG machines."
"Support has a fast response time."
"We are a Managed Service Provider. Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables us not to be worried about vulnerabilities, security, and patching."
"Compared to any other product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a stable backported solution for a long time."
"Out-of-the-box SLES supported all of our HBAs and hardware specific components."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The tool’s idempotency ensures all configurations are in place at all times."
"I have not experienced any issues with this operating system."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The technical support services are good."
"I would like to see additional features, including automation and the introduction of AI/ML-based tools within Red Hat to handle manual tasks that humans are required to do."
"The GUI has room for improvement. It needs to be managed by many administrators. It has basic command lines. They could improve it with better automation. We'd like to be able to create a script, and then have the ability to deploy it where we don't need to write everything manually. That part can be useful for automating."
"I don't prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux for desktop over other options."
"The support can be lackluster sometimes, especially in our disconnected space where we have specific requirements."
"Linux overall needs improvement. They cannot go much beyond what Linus Torvalds's kernel implementation can do. I come from AIX, and there were very cool things in AIX that I am missing dearly, e.g., being able to support not only adding, but also reducing memory and number of processors. That is not supported on Linux right now, and it is the same for the mainstream file systems supported by Red Hat. There is no way of reducing a file system or logical volume. Whereas, in AIX, it was a shoo-in. These are the little things where we can say, "Ah, we are missing AIX for that.""
"The price is something that can be improved, as they are still being undercut."
"The high cost of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has room for improvement."
"We would like to have a better understanding of what to expect when we move to a different version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"I don't like the frequency of updates, especially if they're only from the vendor."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
"I have not seen an ROI with this solution."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"I would like to see GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"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."
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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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