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.
"There are millions of commands you can use, although we use only five or ten."
"It is very stable and robust."
"The solution's stability is great, and patching it with Ansible is very easy."
"The solution's SELinux feature is a gold standard for security. It also has the best ecosystem."
"The biggest thing that I have found valuable is stability."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's most valuable features are the Podman and a lot of packages that come inbuilt as part of the regular package."
"Red Hat has introduced a fast server, where Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be integrated or connected to via a client."
"This is a very robust product that doesn't require a lot of handling. It just works."
"The initial setup is simple and takes five minutes for deployment and if you have automation in place, it will take four minutes."
"The tool’s idempotency ensures all configurations are in place at all times."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The main feature is that Linux is flexible to work with for most web-based applications."
"The most valuable feature is that there is an inbuilt HANA firewall."
"It is very easy to maintain, migrate and upgrade."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"I have not experienced any issues with this operating system."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The numerous links to different pages disrupt the flow of information and make it difficult to maintain focus."
"The product lags a bit behind in the market."
"I really think that the upgrade policies between the major versions, like from from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6, should be much easier, similar to what is in place for upgrading from RHEL 6 to RHEL 6.8."
"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."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux's ability to run containerized applications is not optimized and has room for improvement."
"The solution lacks proper documentation."
"Upgrading between versions needs to be easier."
"The platform doesn't support certain APMs."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
"I don't like the frequency of updates, especially if they're only from the vendor."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processses."
"They should improve their educational portal."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The free version sometimes has security holes."
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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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