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 You'd be better of using Fedora, as RHEL uses outdated software which gets back-ported security patches for 10 years so you are going to be behind on newest software and libraries if you also game on your laptop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 You'd be better of using Fedora, as RHEL uses outdated software which gets back-ported security patches for 10 years so you are going to be behind on newest software and libraries if you also game on your laptop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.

 

[Lynx52]

I love mine and wear it every day.

I need to get one of those

 

[GatorsFan]

Redhat collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) via a recently signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)

That is why Redhat is big Corp now they get loads of money from the DoW (use to be the DoD)

 

[piorunz]

Large corporations are inherently psychopathic in nature. By that I mean they are structured to pursue their own interests relentlessly, without empathy, if it benefits the organization. If you want to explore that idea further, I'd recommend the documentary The Corporation.

If you can, avoid relying on them or buying their products.

Linux has many excellent, well-maintained community distributions. Give a few of them a try. You can enjoy everything Linux has to offer without being at the mercy of large corporations.

 

[Smilax]

I need to get one of those

Gotta go back in time, that one's probably pushing 30.

 

[osprey]

I love mine and wear it every day.

Not Red? This is my red hat from about the year 2000, if I recall correctly. I "won" it at a LUG meeting where a Red Hat representative was presenting a lecture for the group. I was a Red Hat user from Red Hat 6.0 to fedora 27.

 

[Lynx52]

My cousin just joined the Air Force, I'll need to get him using RHEL now, if they don't first. I like the Red Hat, more than the White Red Hat.

 

[Perpetual Padawan]

My differences with some distros are more philosophical than technical I guess. All of "Linux land" is getting farther and farther removed from it's UNIX roots. That's okay as long as freedom and choice remain.

Choice is what seems to be getting lost when it comes to Red Hat, though. You have to use systemd, for example, even though there are alternatives that don't gobble up resources and that don't try to be the "One Ring to Rule Them All" kind of software. Xorg is another example. Tried and proven, rock-stable and reliable for decades is being put to death by Red Hat in favor of Wayland, which is not yet tried and proven reliable and stable. Some of us prefer using an X11 display server simply because it's reliable and stable, but Big Companies (Canonical, Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, etc) remove that choice. Little wonder then, that Xorg had to be forked just to keep it going for those of us who prefer it to Wayland.

I don't begrudge anyone their OS of choice, but I do kinda have a beef with those who would try to remove my ability to choose my own software and use it as I wish.