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."
"With regard to security, most companies are moving towards the black box approach and Red Hat. It's much more secure compared to the other vendors."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very stable. It has been in the market for so many years, and it is used by large organizations."
"The security of the OS is the most valuable feature."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 updates the Cipher Suites and the security proceeds it. I wasn't pleasantly surprised because a bunch of our server communication didn't work. Having the Cipher Suites updated is a good thing but was not convenient."
"The knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux is good. It is easy to parse through all of the knowledge base."
"It's been great since we have it. It's been reliable and fast."
"Resiliency-wise, the solution is very good."
"Compared to any other product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a stable backported solution for a long time."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"RHEL could be improved in several ways, especially regarding transparency and communication of new features."
"If we can update certain parts internally without having to remove them from the entire server, that would be fantastic since, else, there will be downtime, and we will need to reboot."
"If they can make the integration with Ansible easier, that would be ideal."
"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 solution is moving away from CentOS and there are growing pains from the customer's perspective."
"Some of the solution's features need to be automated. We encounter the hassle of registering the system and attaching a subscription."
"The Cockpit interface needs improvement with more features. The information for implementing Red Hat Cluster could be also improved. And there could also be better performance monitoring."
"We need to have more flexibility on the developed versions. Not everybody is ready to subscribe to enterprise versions. They would like to test the tool without subscriptions."
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Flatcar Container Linux is ranked 14th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 1 review 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 and Amazon FreeRTOS, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, CentOS and Kali Linux.
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