Why use RHEL

[botHex]

What do you feel is the major reason as to switch to RHEL from any other OS? Kindly share your thoughts from an enterprise view.

[Travis]

@botHex -

So this would be kind of tricky the way the question is phrased. If you are switching from a Linux OS, and as you mentioned "enterprise" viewpoint, RHEL is the gold standard. It has a trusted supply chain with signed packages, it is a "supported" distribution, it has multiple governmental certifications from testing and is made for the enterprise. Depending on where it is deployed in the enterprise, RHEL has various levels of support from standard to premium which basically boils down to response time to when a support ticket is filed to when an engineer picks it up (so there are SLAs in place).

For laptops and new hardware, I general use Fedora which is the upstream "feeder" project that eventually makes it into RHEL. You get the latest hardware support and updates and have the widest selection. Additionally there are several SPINS available with different graphical desktop environments. These features and environments generally are not needed on enterprise production systems as those are generally non-graphical and often headless systems requiring only 5 9's of reliability 99.999%.