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."
"The most valuable feature of RHEL is the Ansible Automation Platform, closely followed by Satellite."
"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."
"Since we use it for virtualization, KVM has been quite valuable. It's been very solid running OpenShift under KVM. The toolset has been pretty good."
"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 solution's use of Kubernetes as an internal or core process on the system is brilliant."
"RHEL is the most reliable Linux flavor in terms of enterprise governance. I prefer it for its code stability, support, and integration. The lifecycle management features help us maintain compliance and keep the components updated."
"It is hardware-independent. We can use Dell, HPE, or any other hardware. It is also more reasonable than the other operating systems."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a reliable operating system that can run for long periods of time without any issues."
"The development teams could sharpen their skills. They should offer applications on the net."
"I would like to see improvements made to the subscriptions and management of them."
"The cost could be lower. Red Hat is considered a costly solution. It can be expensive if you want all the features in the license. A cheaper license would make Red Hat more accessible to a broader range of users."
"One challenge we've faced is with databases. Configuring and implementing DBs is much easier in non-Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, especially in Microsoft."
"I'm also using IBM AIX, which supports a tool called Smitty. You just put Smitty, and you can do anything. At the backend, the command will run automatically. It is not exactly like a GUI, but you just give the input and it will give you the output. That is something that Red Hat should work on. That would be an added advantage with Red Hat."
"Support for older versions of the operating system could be improved. If people can't afford to upgrade, or if they have servers that are outdated, they need to be able to provide back-field support for those."
"Scaling can be complicated and has room for improvement."
"I want RHEL to stick to the open-source routes. As a company, we experience challenges in managing the budget."
"The numerous links to different pages disrupt the flow of information and make it difficult to maintain focus."
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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, Amazon FreeRTOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and Kali Linux.
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