We performed a comparison between CentOS and openSUSE Leap based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The pricing is good. We pay a minimal fee."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"The solution is easy to troubleshoot."
"The user interface of CentOS is intuitive, we can also use the command prompt."
"The product is very efficient when it comes to virtualization."
"It's a good and stable system. It provides everything you need for web servers and database servers."
"It is a scalable and cost-effective product compared to public cloud solutions."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward and not complex, especially if you are familiar with CLI."
"I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"The solution is very stable after it is configured. It is hard to have a panel slow, a problem, misconfiguration, or any kind of loss function."
"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."
"CentOS is not easy."
"The tool has no official support."
"The price of CentOS could improve."
"If CentOS could add Office features then that would be beneficial. Additionally, the UI could improve."
"Updates are going to a streaming version."
"Previous versions were unstable."
"CentOS could be improved with more user-friendly monitoring."
"I was using CentOS because it was very stable, and now it's not."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
CentOS is ranked 5th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 63 reviews while openSUSE Leap is ranked 12th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 6 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while openSUSE Leap is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CentOS writes "Allows you to securely store data, and command prompts make it simple to use". 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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server and Oracle Solaris, whereas openSUSE Leap is most compared with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu Linux, Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Oracle Linux. See our CentOS vs. openSUSE Leap report.
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