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 most valuable feature is Satellite. Its consistency in patch upgradation is great. For the ten-year lifecycle, we have been able to rely on it and not worry if the patch will break. We do not need additional patching features since it covers everything."
"It is a well-established operating system. We have tried to implement almost every feature of a version in our environment, and it has been very reliable. We are not facing many production issues on a day-to-day basis. They have well-documented articles on their documentation site and a knowledge base on their website. When we need to implement anything, we are able to find information about the best practices and the solution."
"The knowledge base they offer has proven to be quite efficient and we haven't encountered any significant challenges."
"The most valuable feature is the security insight and the internal firewall, which are common in all the machine tests that we use a lot."
"The Red Hat support is most valuable. My team and I are really good at Linux, and we can do almost everything in any kind of Linux solution, but sometimes, we have a really nasty problem, and the Red Hat engineering support at the third level has been fantastic. They know how to fix almost everything. The reason why I pay so much money to them is to have this kind of service and assurance."
"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."
"One of the most important features is the package manager. It provides the ability to very easily roll back transactions when something has gone wrong. It is an easy-to-use tool that helps me in situations where something unexpected has happened. I found that this was one of the solution's major advantages over other distributions."
"It enables us to achieve security compliance. Our security team is quite happy, especially in terms of patching up our servers, etc. It's compliant with our security requirements."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is stable."
"The solution is easy to use, secure and allows for simple manipulation."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"YaST simplifies the server management of SUSE allowing for a centralized utility to control most of the server functions."
"It is a stable platform."
"It is very easy to maintain, migrate and upgrade."
"There should be more upgrades to the security features."
"Sometimes the solution deletes our archives or other features that were useful to us."
"Red Hat can improve its operating system by making it better from the quality assurance perspective. Users do find bugs, which they, of course, shouldn't encounter. A better QA would probably make the job a lot better. It would make the product a lot more stable than it's today."
"The solution's modules feature could be better."
"I have seen that the upgrade from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 can be a bit problematic since I have seen some issues during the upgrade of libraries, along with some conflicts with the other libraries in the tool."
"A targeted package tailored for small and medium-sized businesses can help increase business."
"The solution's operating system configuration and function selection could be improved."
"It is a bit on the pricier side. However, due to the stability and support that they provide to my management and me, we really don't see a reason to choose another way to go. It is hard to get good support."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"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."
"They should probably just make clustering a bit simpler and also provide more descriptive log files for cluster services."
"They should improve their educational portal."
"If you want to do something simple like changing an IP number, you have to be quite aware of all the configuration files where you will change that."
"I have not been overly impressed with their technical support."
"I would like to see GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
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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 25 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 Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, CentOS, Windows 10 and Rocky 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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