"RHEL enables us to deploy applications and emerging workloads across bare-metal and virtualized environments and I find those workloads to be extremely reliable. The reliability is so good that I rarely find myself calling Red Hat support any longer. Support is the first benefit of using RHEL, but the second thing is that the platform is so stable that the need to use support is negligible."
"The biggest benefit is from a security standpoint. As the product progresses and they come up with new versions, the new security features are addressing vulnerabilities. From that perspective, it has worked well."
"The most valuable features are the specification and technical guides, they are most important the security."
"The AppStream feature provides access to up-to-date languages and tools in a way that interoperates with third-party source code. It makes it a lot easier to maintain that, as well as keeps our developers happy by having newer versions of development languages available."
"Its security is the most valuable. It is very stable and has many features. It also has good performance. Some of our clients were using Windows servers and products. I suggested Red Hat Linux to them and described the features. They switched to it, and they really loved it. There were around 50 servers in my last company, and they switched all those servers from Windows to Red Hat. I used to manage those servers."
"Customer support is valuable."
"The best system I've ever used is Red Hat, in terms of its ability and consistency of the operating system. Other than that, the vast majority of applications that I had, you can deploy Red Hat with the support of the vast majority of applications. We don't have many issues with the OS, the support is very good."
"The most valuable features are stability and supportability... You want to have something that's up and running and stable, something that's not going to crash. But if we do have an issue, we can get somebody for technical support who can help us work through the problems."
"Setup is straightforward. You can complete it in about 30 minutes."
"A valuable features of CentOS is that it's quite stable and doesn't crash often. It's also quite intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is compatible with RedHat."
"I like how you can alternate certain things and minimize admin features on there and just let it run on specific scripts. It's nice. Even if I had to put it in a container, I'd still do it. I prefer Linux over Windows any day."
"Very robust and easy to work with."
"It’s scalable."
"The user interface of CentOS is intuitive, we can also use the command prompt."
"It has minimal updates compared to other distributions."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"The solution is easy for me to use because the backend is derived from FreeBSD and this is something I have been using for over 20 years."
"Security could be increased."
"It is a bit on the pricier side. However, due to the stability and support that they provide to my management and me, we really don't see a reason to choose another way to go. It is hard to get good support."
"Linux overall needs improvement. They cannot go much beyond what Linus Torvalds's kernel implementation can do. I come from AIX, and there were very cool things in AIX that I am missing dearly, e.g., being able to support not only adding, but also reducing memory and number of processors. That is not supported on Linux right now, and it is the same for the mainstream file systems supported by Red Hat. There is no way of reducing a file system or logical volume. Whereas, in AIX, it was a shoo-in. These are the little things where we can say, "Ah, we are missing AIX for that.""
"I would like training to be added to the subscription. It would be useful for when you have to train yourself or get a certification. There are many things that we are not using because we don't know how to use them. Having training included in the subscription would help us in learning more things and utilizing the full power of the solution."
"The biggest thing that is crushing RHEL is documentation. Their documentation is haphazard at best. The man pages that you can use locally are pretty good, they've been fleshed out pretty well, but the documentation from Red Hat itself really needs somebody to go through it and review it."
"I would like to see improvements made to the subscriptions and management of them."
"The accessibility to the resources could be more widespread. We have to put a lot of effort into finding indigenous information on the site. For example, the license information is convoluted. This information should be easier for customers to access."
"I would mostly like to see improvement around corporate messaging. When Red Hat 8 came out, and Red Hat decided to change, it inverted the relationship between Red Hat and CentOS. This caused my customers who had a CentOS to RHEL development to production workflow quite a bit of heartburn that several of them are still working out. A lot of that probably could have been avoided through better messaging."
"Like every operating system, it could be more secure."
"CentOS could be improved by being more secure. Of course, we use a firewall, but security is always a concern."
"It would be useful if reporting were included as part of the basic license."
"The performance could stand improvement."
"Previous versions were unstable."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The solution is stable, however, it could always be even more stable if possible."
"I would like to see more frequent updates."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
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CentOS is ranked 7th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 34 reviews while openSUSE Leap is ranked 9th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 2 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while openSUSE Leap is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of CentOS writes "Relegated to a test bench, and therefore is no longer stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of openSUSE Leap writes "Good virtualization capabilities, stable, and cost-effective ". CentOS is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and Oracle Solaris, whereas openSUSE Leap is most compared with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, Oracle Linux and Windows Server. See our CentOS vs. openSUSE Leap report.
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