User Reviews of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Updated January 2025

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) review

Bruce Lundberg
Bruce Lundberg
Linux HPC Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Reliable patch management, high uptime, and incredible knowledge base
In terms of security, it does a lot of things that most people still turn off. SELinux is turned on by default. They have pretty good firewall rules in their defaults. The audit rules always take tweaking, but, overall, it comes out of the box not too bad. I used to write scripts to harden them from there. There are multiple ways to...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) review

reviewer2592627
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Facilitates seamless workload migration between diverse cloud environments and...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux facilitates seamless workload migration between diverse cloud environments and data centers. In DevOps, workload portability between cloud and data centers is crucial, so we prioritize operating systems supported by multiple cloud providers and available locally. Key considerations include stability, security...

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