We performed a comparison between openSUSE Leap, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Solaris 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 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."
"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 most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"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 main business advantage is maintaining compliance with Oracle licensing, avoiding non-compliance issues, and license revisions."
"There is full compatibility with RedHat-based operating systems, in particular Centos, which we widely deployed before Oracle Linux (OL)."
"Once installed, the product is good, I like it. The core of the software is really good."
"I like that it's very stable and lightweight and that it requires very little resources."
"Overall Oracle Linux is very good."
"The stability is excellent and the initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are performance, frequent update patches, and security."
"It helps us to create users and groups. We can also plan on the access that will be given to them. I use it for identity management during the installment and configuration process. We use it to start or stop processes and services. Another use case of the solution is post-opening."
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"The backup capabilities are quite good."
"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."
"It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
"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."
"Another notable aspect that could be improved is minor compatibility with Red Hat."
"For usability, the GUI options during the initial setup could be included with advanced functionalities that are now currently only possible on the CLI."
"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly for basic users to reduce the time it takes to learn the commands and to reduce the dependencies that come with the OS so the deployment time can be reduced."
"They should improve in the area of entertainment applications for the average user."
"Kernel updates need improvement."
"It would be ideal if they added a faster implementation of the security fixes, if possible."
"The support process is time-consuming as it involves several steps."
"It will be better to consolidate all the features in one release instead of sporadic releases."
"I believe before Oracle was using Oracle Linux, they were using Oracle Solaris for their customers who are using Oracle databases. This was because it was more optimized for the hardware built for it. It has good performance for the database only. However, if you take it out of the Oracle applications, it will not do well compared to other operating systems, such as Linux or even Windows can have better performance."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"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."
"This product is not as flexible as other similar solutions on the market today."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."