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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Average rating
7.6 from 11 review(s)
Version: RHEL-9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-25
Votes: 0
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Feel free to use RHEL on desktop. To be honest RHEL is build to use it on server. Why? You get a fixed version with a long support time, but included SW are also fixed in a version. You get only security updates within support time but no functional updates. That's the reason for "rock stable distro".
For desktop I use Fedora (also RedHat based).There you get new functions and so on and in summary it is also very stable, may be not "rock stable", but completely sufficient for desktop.
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Version: RHEL-9.5
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 0
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I use it on my home desktop pc and laptop. Has most of what I need for getting online with firefox and libre office for basic office. I feel it's a more secure setup than most other offerings and it's made in USA.
I found some things that are missing but they can be found in EPEL or RPM fusion and flatpaks.
Works great for me I'm retired.
It's also free with the redhat developer account for up to 16 machines.
I tried oracle linux and had sleep power problems.
I tried almalinux and most things worked ok but I found rhel worked better for my system.
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Version: RHEL-10.0-beta
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-12-25
Votes: 2
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Why this version of RHEL didn't come with a browser?? I've had to install the flatpak version of Firefox to get into Google.
This distro has a polished version gnome desktop environment anyways with a little Red Hat logo on the "Activities" button and a wallpaper indicating the version of it :)
For me, as a desktop user, I couldn't install any packages such as "htop" and "vim" unless I had to add the EPEL repo which includes all the packages I need in a typical distro. The same thing applies for its derivatives like Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.
I don't see why people are hating Red Hat Enterprise Linux while you can get a free developer subscription on their website, but I understand people don't want to create a Red Hat account :D
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Version: RHEL-9.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-03
Votes: 20
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is rock solid. People often say it's old. It's not. It's stable. On the desktop, many apps as provided by the default Red Hat repositories may be too old for your liking, but it's not a problem. I replace all the desktop stuff with flatpaks anyway. This is the industry standard, and now that there's a free subsciption option for individuals, why not?
Sometimes Red Hat the company makes controversial decisions like making it harder to create clones, but I don't want a clone. I want RHEL :-)
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Version: RHEL-9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-30
Votes: 0
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Fedora which is RHEL's upstream distro is often hailed as one of the best distros to run on personal computers, but my biggest gripe with fedora is its philosophy to propagate FOSS only software.
There are many applications which aren't available on fedora because of its FOSS only policy. Mongodb comes to my mind to name a few. Overall, RHEL has been a pretty stable, reliable and convenient distro with support to a plethora of applications and i do hope Red Hat strives to keep it that way.
Good job Red Hat.
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Version: RHEL-9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-13
Votes: 0
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I have extensive past experience of using CentOS 7 + 8 as a development workstation so when looking for a distro to use on my home laptop RHEL 9 became a contender. I am using the free developers license so I have access to updates from Redhat.
RHEL is perfect for my requirements. A rock solid GNOME desktop not too far behind the upstream. The default repos are light on packages but can be supplemented with EPEL, RPM Fusion, Flathub and (did I mention I was a developer?) the occasional package compiled from source.
Not to everyone's taste but I cannot see why I should not keep using this distro for a good long time.
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Version: RHEL-9.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-06-01
Votes: 32
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Update issues caused by simple bugs like curl, ssl, language, decoding error and ASCII character encoding, which were fixed months ago in Fedora but still not fixed in RHEL version 9, have not been fixed despite months of reports of update issues. These errors occur in several languages other than English and are not fixed unless the system language is set to English. This also affects AlmaLinux, CentOS and other RHEL 9 based distributions.
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Version: RHEL-7.9
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-18
Votes: 4
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Stable, Stable, Reliable
It runs ALL the time.
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Version: RHEL-8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-18
Votes: 1
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The reference in the Enterprise market. Not for home use.
Not cheap but reliable.
When something gets broken and your manager wants a solution fast, RHEL is the way.
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Version: RHEL-8.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-21
Votes: 5
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The only unique thing about this distro over the others targeting the same market is the excellent paid support you get, but that shouldn't matter if you are rating the product itself.
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Version: RHEL-7.9
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-19
Votes: 3
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Works out of the box. Stable. Updates do not break functionality.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.5
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-25
Votes: 0
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Feel free to use RHEL on desktop. To be honest RHEL is build to use it on server. Why? You get a fixed version with a long support time, but included SW are also fixed in a version. You get only security updates within support time but no functional updates. That's the reason for "rock stable distro".
For desktop I use Fedora (also RedHat based).There you get new functions and so on and in summary it is also very stable, may be not "rock stable", but completely sufficient for desktop.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.5
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-02-02
Votes: 0
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I use it on my home desktop pc and laptop. Has most of what I need for getting online with firefox and libre office for basic office. I feel it's a more secure setup than most other offerings and it's made in USA.
I found some things that are missing but they can be found in EPEL or RPM fusion and flatpaks.
Works great for me I'm retired.
It's also free with the redhat developer account for up to 16 machines.
I tried oracle linux and had sleep power problems.
I tried almalinux and most things worked ok but I found rhel worked better for my system.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-10.0-beta
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-12-25
Votes: 2
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Why this version of RHEL didn't come with a browser?? I've had to install the flatpak version of Firefox to get into Google.
This distro has a polished version gnome desktop environment anyways with a little Red Hat logo on the "Activities" button and a wallpaper indicating the version of it :)
For me, as a desktop user, I couldn't install any packages such as "htop" and "vim" unless I had to add the EPEL repo which includes all the packages I need in a typical distro. The same thing applies for its derivatives like Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.
I don't see why people are hating Red Hat Enterprise Linux while you can get a free developer subscription on their website, but I understand people don't want to create a Red Hat account :D
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-03
Votes: 20
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is rock solid. People often say it's old. It's not. It's stable. On the desktop, many apps as provided by the default Red Hat repositories may be too old for your liking, but it's not a problem. I replace all the desktop stuff with flatpaks anyway. This is the industry standard, and now that there's a free subsciption option for individuals, why not?
Sometimes Red Hat the company makes controversial decisions like making it harder to create clones, but I don't want a clone. I want RHEL :-)
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-30
Votes: 0
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Fedora which is RHEL's upstream distro is often hailed as one of the best distros to run on personal computers, but my biggest gripe with fedora is its philosophy to propagate FOSS only software.
There are many applications which aren't available on fedora because of its FOSS only policy. Mongodb comes to my mind to name a few. Overall, RHEL has been a pretty stable, reliable and convenient distro with support to a plethora of applications and i do hope Red Hat strives to keep it that way.
Good job Red Hat.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-11-13
Votes: 0
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I have extensive past experience of using CentOS 7 + 8 as a development workstation so when looking for a distro to use on my home laptop RHEL 9 became a contender. I am using the free developers license so I have access to updates from Redhat.
RHEL is perfect for my requirements. A rock solid GNOME desktop not too far behind the upstream. The default repos are light on packages but can be supplemented with EPEL, RPM Fusion, Flathub and (did I mention I was a developer?) the occasional package compiled from source.
Not to everyone's taste but I cannot see why I should not keep using this distro for a good long time.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-9.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-06-01
Votes: 32
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Update issues caused by simple bugs like curl, ssl, language, decoding error and ASCII character encoding, which were fixed months ago in Fedora but still not fixed in RHEL version 9, have not been fixed despite months of reports of update issues. These errors occur in several languages other than English and are not fixed unless the system language is set to English. This also affects AlmaLinux, CentOS and other RHEL 9 based distributions.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-7.9
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-10-18
Votes: 4
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Stable, Stable, Reliable
It runs ALL the time.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-18
Votes: 1
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The reference in the Enterprise market. Not for home use.
Not cheap but reliable.
When something gets broken and your manager wants a solution fast, RHEL is the way.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-8.3
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-05-21
Votes: 5
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The only unique thing about this distro over the others targeting the same market is the excellent paid support you get, but that shouldn't matter if you are rating the product itself.
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Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Version: RHEL-7.9
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-03-19
Votes: 3
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Works out of the box. Stable. Updates do not break functionality.
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