Opinions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

[Lynx52]

Hey everyone,
As you know, I'm a high school student interested in computers. I've been gone from here for quite a while. I'm now using RHEL 10.2, It runs my brand new custom server and laptop and works great. Just curious to know what the community here thinks about RHEL and how good it's security systems actually are.
Thanks,
Gabe

 

[f33dm3bits]

I think it's better to user Rocky Linux or Alma Linux or CentOS because you never know if Red Hat/IBM may change the terms and start to charge you for it. I also don't like subscription-manager is slow and for a personal situation it's just to not have to deal with it. You'd be better of using Fedora, as RHEL uses outdated software which gets back-ported security patches for 10 years so you are going to be behind on newest software and libraries if you also game on your laptop that can be a thing. I've gamed in the past on a RHEL clone and I had some issues which which weren't a problem a more up-to-date distribution. I like selinux as it's quite useful. Nothing else to say about it.

 

[Lynx52]

I think it's better to user Rocky Linux or Alma Linux or CentOS because you never know if Red Hat/IBM may change the terms and start to charge you for it. I also don't like subscription-manager is slow and for a personal situation it's just to not have to deal with it. You'd be better of using Fedora, as RHEL uses outdated software which gets back-ported security patches for 10 years so you are going to be behind on newest software and libraries if you also game on your laptop that can be a thing. I've gamed in the past on a RHEL clone and I had some issues which which weren't a problem a more up-to-date distribution. I like selinux as it's quite useful. Nothing else to say about it.

No time to game with schoolwork and robotics.

 

[f33dm3bits]

No time to game with schoolwork and robotics.

You sure love writing replies lol

 

[Lynx52]

You sure love writing replies lol

I sure do, I'm human after all, language is important. The fact that it's almost expected to not actually respond is a sign of our times.

 

[kc1di]

Red Hat is good and solid, backed by a big Corporation But it's slow to change and can be costly if IBM so chooses. I'm with @f33dm3bits go with rocky or alma or even Debian if you need that type of stability in a free software environment. I personally like Fedora but it's not everyone cup of tea and as you can see from my signature I'm using kubuntu LTS at the moment. But the great thing about Linux is we have choices and if your choice is Red Hat go for it.

 

[KGIII]

RHEL is fine. I do believe they have some use limits for their free stuff. As in, you can't use it in a for-profit enterprise unless you've paid for it. Double-check that, as I could be wrong.

Rocky and Alma are both fine. I've used both to some extent.

 

[Smilax]

I love mine and wear it every day.