Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server editions for x86, x86_64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z architectures, and desktop editions for x86 and x86_64 processors. All of Red Hat's official support and training and the Red Hat Certification Program centres around the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat uses strict trademark rules to restrict free re-distribution of its officially supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but still freely provides its source code. Third-party derivatives can be built and redistributed by stripping away non-free components.
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Version: RHEL-9.8 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-08-11 Country: United States Votes: 0
Installed 9.8 because my new job is entirely Red hat based. Love it. there are a few quirks and Quarks getting certain things like ClamAV to update in the gui. Getting KDE connect to connect to my phone and tablet as well as the VM's host successfully. It runs as a VM beautifully with no apparent bottlenecks. There is a slight learning curve however to setting up a system (but thats usually personal preferences) rock solid performer and most things "just work" Google AI when they dont. could use some more everyday apps and the KDE Plasma desktop rocks.
10/10 as a solid, enterprise-grade Linux distro. RedHat also contributes lots of code to Linux. But the decision to limit access to source code -- in complete violation of the spirit of free software -- doesn't scream "good corporate citizen." 4/10 for playing well with others. If you need to build servers, this may likely be what you use. If you're a regular Linux user, you have lots of alternatives. The Arch family or the Debian tree (I love Zorin and Pop_OS! among others) may be a better place to hang your hat.
I upgraded with RHEL 9. all this only to find out that I can't because some services are not supported.
Additionally, I had open source software that is apparently incompatible with RHEL 10.
Pretty useless and troublesome if you can't easily upgrade from one version to another.
RHEL support advised switching to another program.
the problem is that the company supports the given program, as well as RHEL.
Perhaps I would recommend RedHat to bring the OS to a functional state and not to issue beta versions to customers.
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