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.
"It has improved our organization's management and efficiency."
"RHEL is stable, mature, and relatively easy to handle. I'm pretty confident in it. We haven't had to raise a serious support ticket for any server in I don't know how many years."
"The knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux is good. It is easy to parse through all of the knowledge base."
"It eases the burden by restricting the use of open-source Linux and preventing the development community from obtaining their own images. This is crucial for maintaining a secure supply chain and ensuring the lockdown of live Linux packages."
"When it comes to security, scalability, and robustness, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) excels in all aspects. That's why we rely on this operating system."
"It has improved our organization. It has standardized processes."
"It's a rock-solid operating system. We don't need anything fancy from the operating system itself. What we need is something that doesn't crash, stays up to date, and provides the security features that we need to keep external players out."
"The frequent updates are valuable."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy to configure for those who are not hardcore command-line driven."
"SUSE Linux's most valuable feature is the documentation - there is a lot of documentation about how to create custom servers."
"The main feature is that Linux is flexible to work with for most web-based applications."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"I have not experienced any issues with this operating system."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"The technical support services are good."
"The initial setup for most modern Linux distributions is normally straightforward. Most of the common distributions use an ncurses or GUI install."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's patching process needs improvement, particularly in achieving consistency. Currently, when you patch, you might not have control over the timing, leading to different software packages ending up at different patch levels. This lack of consistency can make it challenging to manage and control the various components effectively."
"Large application vendors may not have certified RHEL, or they have certified an older version. Most of the large application vendors are unfamiliar with the versioning that RHEL introduced, which I strongly support. They will support a given sub-version up to a point, not realizing that the sub-versions are essentially additive."
"The default settings are confusing."
"Its installation on a RAID or cluster system is something difficult."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's ability to run containerized applications is not optimized and has room for improvement."
"The graphical user interface should be more user-friendly. It's a concern because the command line is perfectly fine."
"The cost of this solution could be improved."
"They should probably just make clustering a bit simpler and also provide more descriptive log files for cluster services."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
"The product must improve its UI."
"The platform doesn't support certain APMs."
"The only stability issues that I can recall encountering with SUSE would be with KDE. However, that is limited to just the desktop environment as I have not had stability issues with most server functions."
"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."
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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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