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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at Ingram Micro
Aug 2, 2021
CentOS is very efficient and very powerful with many capabilities.
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Lead Solutions Architect - International Projects at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 11, 2021
The pricing is good. We pay a minimal fee.
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Ahmed Qasim
Senior System Admin at Tepco-Group
Aug 7, 2023
I find the solution's stability to be the most valuable feature of it since I have been using a virtual machine with the help of the solution since 2015, and it still works on all the laptops in my organization.
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Erick-Guevara
Application Server Manager at Centro Nacional de Registros
Aug 2, 2022
The solution is stable and reliable.
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Yilmaz Cagri Isbuga
Co-Owner at Tekbilge Internet Technologies Ltd & IDA LTD
Jan 10, 2023
There are a lot of sources on the internet that you can use to solve any issues, and people share their experiences. It's not a closed system
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Arif-Kundi
CEO at BazTech
Feb 29, 2024
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward and not complex, especially if you are familiar with CLI.
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D6B8
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196
Sep 8, 2020
It has minimal updates compared to other distributions.
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Victor Sibanda
Managing Director at Equilogic Technologies
Aug 11, 2022
We particularly like that we can remove the graphic user interface to minimize attack settings for the operating system.
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Rahul Sawhney
Group Manager at HCL Technologies
Jul 5, 2022
It’s scalable.
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Brian Bagnall
Senior Unix System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 25, 2021
It's easy to install.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at Ingram Micro
Aug 2, 2021
I was using CentOS because it was very stable, and now it's not.
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reviewer1597158
Lead Solutions Architect - International Projects at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Jun 11, 2021
The solution is stable, however, it could always be even more stable if possible.
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Ahmed Qasim
Senior System Admin at Tepco-Group
Aug 7, 2023
CentOS NetworkManager is an area of concern in the solution that needs improvement, and it is the same with other products from Red Hat.
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Erick-Guevara
Application Server Manager at Centro Nacional de Registros
Aug 2, 2022
The GUI interface could always be better.
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Yilmaz Cagri Isbuga
Co-Owner at Tekbilge Internet Technologies Ltd & IDA LTD
Jan 10, 2023
The security could be improved because the server system isn't very secure.
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Arif-Kundi
CEO at BazTech
Feb 29, 2024
The product lacks a graphical user interface that can help users automate certain systems using the native features offered by CentOS.
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D6B8
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196
Sep 8, 2020
They could build more options into the wizard.
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Victor Sibanda
Managing Director at Equilogic Technologies
Aug 11, 2022
We would like Red Hat to keep supporting the solution but they have decided to get rid of it and there isn't much we can do about it.
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Rahul Sawhney
Group Manager at HCL Technologies
Jul 5, 2022
In terms of commands, it's all CLI and there isn't any GUI which can make it challenging to use for some people.
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Brian Bagnall
Senior Unix System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 25, 2021
Updates are going to a streaming version.
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