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 security updates and the support that comes along with it for applications are valuable."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linunx's most valuable feature is patching."
"It is more supported and supportable in the enterprise sense than Ubuntu or perhaps a smaller distro, but it's also flexible enough to easily transport from platform to platform: ISA to ISA, production to development, and vice versa."
"The most valuable feature is its security. In Windows, there are risks of attacks or of data leaks because it is using .exe files, but in Red Hat's Linux-based operating system, the data is more secure."
"The most valuable thing about Red Hat is its stability, uptime, and support for various hardware vendors. Linux servers, in general, are relatively secure and they are more secure than Windows and other products."
"Support is most valuable. If a customer has a problem with a feature or a bug, we can open a support case for that, and the issue is resolved or taken care of. That's the main benefit of the product."
"We find the Red Hat Satellite deployments very useful. It integrates well with other solutions."
"OpenShift is the most valuable feature because it can be used to create applications on the fly."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is stable."
"YaST simplifies the server management of SUSE allowing for a centralized utility to control most of the server functions."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's a flexible solution."
"It is a stable platform."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy to configure for those who are not hardcore command-line driven."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"A completely new setup should not be required when upgrading to a new version."
"I don't see anything that needs improvement with RHEL itself, but there is room for improvement of the support infrastructure for it. The management and updates to Satellite, which is the support update, have been cumbersome at best, including releases and changes to a release. Communication on how that will work going forward has not been great."
"Maybe they need to make it easier to apply patches from different resources. That said, at my level of usage, I never have to apply patches."
"The only change that stumped me was the networking in version 9. I preferred the ifconfig way of doing things, but the system changes of it have grown on me."
"Continuous improvement is essential to enhance user experiences and address evolving needs."
"I'm not sure how the support is being changed in terms of needing to pay for it. That's an area that can be improved. They should offer support without charging users for it."
"The accessibility to the resources could be more widespread. We have to put a lot of effort into finding indigenous information on the site. For example, the license information is convoluted. This information should be easier for customers to access."
"The solution should provide demos so that users can learn to use it and improve their environments."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"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."
"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."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"They should probably just make clustering a bit simpler and also provide more descriptive log files for cluster services."
"The platform doesn't support certain APMs."
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 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, Oracle Linux and CentOS, 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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