We performed a comparison between CentOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise 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."There's lots of great documentation available."
"Offers useful information and has good compatibility."
"The open architecture is useful for us. That's why we're using CentOS."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"It is a scalable and cost-effective product compared to public cloud solutions."
"The most valuable feature of CentOS is that it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"It has all the features of Red Hat, but you don't have to pay for the subscription."
"The tool’s idempotency ensures all configurations are in place at all times."
"From a functionality perspective, the suite is quite rich. We like that."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"Out-of-the-box SLES supported all of our HBAs and hardware specific components."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"The main feature is that Linux is flexible to work with for most web-based applications."
"It's easy to set up."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is stable."
"It would be useful if reporting were included as part of the basic license."
"CentOS is not easy."
"I would like the integration to be more secure."
"If a proper GUI-based tool was connected remotely or on the machine, it could be a great addition to CentOS."
"I would like to see more frequent updates."
"This solution is no longer suited to our business following the change they have made to the release process. It is no longer an enterprise solution."
"In the future, CentOS will no longer be compatible with Red Hat."
"The solution could improve by making the management tools better for the DevOps teams. For example, WebEX and Webstacks."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"SUSE Linux could provide more information about cost and the details of how clustering works."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"The only stability issues that I can recall encountering with SUSE would be with KDE. However, that is limited to just the desktop environment as I have not had stability issues with most server functions."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processses."
"I have not been overly impressed with their technical support."
"They should provide chatbot support for customers to open the troubleshooting cases directly."
CentOS is ranked 5th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 63 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. 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 SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". CentOS is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server and openSUSE Leap, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux. See our CentOS vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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