We performed a comparison between openSUSE Leap, Oracle Solaris, and Ubuntu Linux based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"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."
"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"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 stability of the solution is good."
"Oracle Solaris's operating system is good."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It is a scalable solution. I recommend it for bigger companies."
"It has improved our ability to carry out maintenance without downtime as migrating services between server environments is largely seamless."
"The trifecta comprising the solution's most valuable features consists of its stability, security and performance."
"It is more powerful because you have more control over it."
"The most valuable features are stability and updates. We are not using the interface, the interface of the OS, we are using it as the server. We actually sync it through SSH and we deploy our application, so we don't have access to do it. The updates are very helpful and the way they update their OS is very helpful."
"Ubuntu Linux is easy to start, and MicroK8s is easy to deploy. Plug into the back-end storage and networking is also easy. It is good to start with 3-4 nodes, but hard to scale. For production grades like 20 or 100 nodes, we go with the RedHat for on-premise."
"The solution is flexible and user-friendly."
"This open source operating system promotes very secure environments with less possibility of being attacked. Support for this system is great because of its quick SLA."
"There is value in the long-time supported distribution LPS."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"Ubuntu Linux could improve by having better documentation because sometimes their documentation is not very good."
"More drivers for hardware such as different network adapters should be developed."
"The performance of this product could still be improved, as it's always good to improve on the performance of any product, no matter how satisfied you are with it."
"Occasionally, we have problems with stability."
"The product is difficult to use sometimes."
"It would be nice to see more compatibility with certain Microsoft solutions, such as OneDrive."
"Developing more applications for businesses could work better, but that is not part of the OS piece. Let the developers work on other apps, therefore the needs for consuming less memory do not affect the performance of this OS version."
"On the desktop edition, we'd like more themes."
