We performed a comparison between CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) finishes ahead of CentOS in this comparison. Users feel that RHEL offers better stability, control, and consistent value-added updates. Additionally, the improved integration with RHEL provides for a better TCO, allowing resources to be distributed elsewhere in the organization, further enhancing productivity and profitability.
"I like its stability, performance, and usability."
"Offers useful information and has good compatibility."
"The product is based on Red Hat and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the limited resources the solution uses in operation."
"It is better than Ubuntu Linux."
"The solution is easy to troubleshoot."
"The latest version of this solution has everything built in, making it comprehensive and very easy to use."
"It helps us install and deploy our applications."
"We use this product's built-in tracing and monitoring tools such as syslog and SAR (system activity reporter) to provide us with greater insight and visibility into what's going on."
"In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I am a big fan of the command line."
"It's been great since we have it. It's been reliable and fast."
"We also use Ansible. Ansible is a wonderful tool for automation. We use it to automate our patching. We use Ansible to get playbooks to take care of anything that's manual."
"Errata is the most valuable feature, which is supported by Red Hat."
"Management is portable and easily automated so deploying or installing packages and running updates is seamless."
"The tool is simple and easy to use. It has good support and doesn't have many outages due to the OS."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are its stability and resilience in that we rarely have to take down the systems completely to patch them."
"CentOS is very close to the end of life."
"Integration with Open Stack could be improved."
"The security could be improved because the server system isn't very secure."
"More security features could be included in the next release."
"The product lacks a graphical user interface that can help users automate certain systems using the native features offered by CentOS."
"It would be useful if reporting were included as part of the basic license."
"The performance could stand improvement."
"It could be more secure."
"I don't like the UI changes that come with different versions."
"As a developer, I would like to have access to this software so that I can install the tools that I need."
"I also want the co-pilot to provide more granular control and more features in the GUI, so we can have one configuration from the GUI itself. It would be helpful to have a feature similar to the one in Windows where we can manage all the net flows from one console in a single pane of glass and install it on-premises like an admin center. It would be great if Red Hat had some kind of admin center to manage all the RHEL boxes without using an additional product like Satellite or something, we could use the co-pilot on all the systems to monitor the dashboard."
"Currently, there is a gap in the file system management. I want to be able to expand the file system in a simpler way and have the application or the database use that expansion without any downtime."
"AIX will be out of support in the next few years, so that is a problem because a lot of the clinical apps use AIX."
"There was a reduction in the amount of detail provided in backlog messages between Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions six and seven, compared to versions eight and nine."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux should provide more training because many people are not very familiar with Linux's user interface."
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CentOS is ranked 5th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 63 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 179 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8. 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". CentOS is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Windows Server, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and Rocky Linux. See our CentOS vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) report.
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