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."CentOS is very easy to use, and all the commands are user-friendly."
"The user access level is most valuable. When you do administration with CentOS, the number of customizations that you can do for each user is higher than other solutions. It is very customizable."
"The solution is easy to use but not as easy as Windows."
"The stability of this solution is its most useful feature. It is a high quality product and you know what you're getting. You also receive wide support from the community."
"The most valuable feature is that it is compatible with RedHat."
"The scalability of CentOS is good. We can deploy the operating system in many hardware, laptops, and servers."
"I like its stability, performance, and usability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"YaST simplifies the server management of SUSE allowing for a centralized utility to control most of the server functions."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"The technical support services are good."
"It's easy to set up."
"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."
"I was using CentOS because it was very stable, and now it's not."
"The YUM install manager can be improved. It is below average as compared to the other install managers. This is the only major problem that I see with CentOS. They should reduce dependency on the YUM manager."
"The performance could stand improvement."
"Integration with Open Stack could be improved."
"Lacks sufficient security and some coding tools."
"The GUI interface could always be better."
"CentOS is not easy."
"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 GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"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."
"The solution could be more stable."
"If you want to do something simple like changing an IP number, you have to be quite aware of all the configuration files where you will change that."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"I don't like the frequency of updates, especially if they're only from the vendor."
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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