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.
"I like the speed of the OS data and the ease of Ansible automation. I don't need to spend much time managing everything."
"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."
"The features and tools help us to maintain security overall."
"I like its integrations. I would put it higher than any other Linux version when it comes to availability. Its integrations with different applications and solutions are the best. We work with a lot of clients that use RHEL, and we could easily and quickly integrate any cloud solution, virtualization solution, storage solution, or software with the RHEL system. It is better than the other solutions we have worked with."
"Its scalability and ease of setup and configuration are most valuable. When we have a hardware failure, we just save the configuration files, and in about half an hour, we have another server running with the same configuration. It is really easy to replace servers. This is the best feature."
"The knowledge base offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux is good. It is easy to parse through all of the knowledge base."
"Automation is the most valuable feature. I don't like having to solve a problem more than once. If I can just whip up some code to take care of deploying something, responding to something, etc., then that is what I prefer. It is a lot easier out-of-the-box to do than it is with Windows. With Windows, there is always the process of bootstrapping into being able to have the automation framework available, then making the automation framework work."
"It is a good operating system. It is very stable. It does not take a lot of maintenance. You set it up well and it runs."
"The most valuable feature is that there is an inbuilt HANA firewall."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the installation part...We don't face any issues related to the operating system or application."
"The main feature is that Linux is flexible to work with for most web-based applications."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It is very easy to maintain, migrate and upgrade."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"The product lags a bit behind in the market."
"I don't prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux for desktop over other options."
"Upgrading between versions needs to be easier."
"There are some things that we've seen from RHEL that have given us a little bit of consternation. Their IdM product could be improved greatly. It would be great if they had some type of application built in that would let you do whitelisting for applications. On the government side, for zero trust, that's becoming very important. We're currently using a third-party solution, and it's tough to get it to match up because anytime the kernel changes, you have to match the software to the kernel."
"I want RHEL to stick to the open-source routes. As a company, we experience challenges in managing the budget."
"The solution should improve its documentation."
"The product should be made more accessible to someone who isn't experienced with Linux."
"The solution's licensing sometimes could be a little bit confusing for someone who's not a full-blown system admin and doesn't have a lot of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"I have not seen an ROI with this solution."
"The quality of support offered by SUSE Linux Enterprise is not that great, making it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"They should improve their educational portal."
"We previously had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE Manager, but the issue was resolved."
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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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