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 solution's operating systems are phenomenally resilient and stable. The good part is that Red Hat has backing and support. Also, combined with IBM, it gives more confidence to my customers."
"Errata is the most valuable feature, which is supported by Red Hat."
"The feature that I like the most is that we can integrate it easily with our existing infrastructure. We found that it is much easier to deploy RHEL in our environment compared to a competing distribution like Ubuntu."
"Everything is just stable and works well."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a reliable operating system that can run for long periods of time without any issues."
"We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on."
"The security of the OS is the most valuable feature."
"The frequent updates are valuable."
"The solution is easy to use, secure and allows for simple manipulation."
"It is a stable platform."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's a flexible solution."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is easy to configure for those who are not hardcore command-line driven."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is stable."
"Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon)."
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization isn't up to the mark as compared to VMware and Hyper-V, but they're moving everything on OpenShift for containers and virtual machines, which is stable. If you go into the virtualization layer, they still need to improve a lot of things, but with regards to OpenShift, containers, Docker, and other things, they are doing well."
"The Modules feature is awesome but it could be even better."
"AIX will be out of support in the next few years, so that is a problem because a lot of the clinical apps use AIX."
"We finally started doing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge. That one definitely is an improvement. One piece that is missing is that we are required to use moby-engine, but currently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge forces Podman, so we have to work around it."
"The cost could be lowered. We don't use RHEL in the cloud because Ubuntu is cheaper. Ubuntu factors support costs into the license when you're running it in the cloud, and it's a fraction of the cost of what RHEL is. I'm also not sure if RHEL supports open-source products. If they do, they don't advertise it. Adding stuff like Apache and other open-source tools like Tomcat to their support portfolio would help."
"When we initially began working with containers, we encountered some challenges with compatibility."
"I would like to see improvements made to the subscriptions and management of them."
"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."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
"They should probably just make clustering a bit simpler and also provide more descriptive log files for cluster services."
"Compared with the competition, of late actually, the solution has increased its pricing tremendously."
"All distributions of Linux could use some improvement."
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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, 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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