CentOS Other Solutions Considered

Arif-Kundi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at BazTech

CentOS and other Linux products have almost the same features, but Fedora Linux, a product that is a more futuristic tool, was a bit buggy. The aforementioned area consists of details on why my company chose to work with CentOS.

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AQ
Senior System Admin at Tepco-Group

There are no cons in CentOS or Red Hat products. The cons are mostly found in Microsoft products.

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Sajjad Raza - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President | Services Group Leader at Afiniti

My organization asked us to identify the possibilities of using Oracle Linux. That's why I am studying options.

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CentOS
April 2024
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Erick-Guevara - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Server Manager at Centro Nacional de Registros

I did not personally compare other different solutions. 

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BB
Senior Unix System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were a few other options, but CentOS is heavily used and that helps.

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DM
Head of Department of operational and compliance at ACE GABON

I sometimes use Ubuntu for network service. The main difference is that if you don't upgrade with Ubuntu, you have to change the source and that can create problems that we don't experience with CentOS.

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Victor Sibanda - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Equilogic Technologies

Because the solution is being depreciated, we are considering moving to Ubuntu but haven't made that decision yet. 

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D6B8 - PeerSpot reviewer
District Technology at INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

When it comes to Linux, we've tried the Debian route before. Trying both Debian and Ubuntu, we settled on CentOS once we noticed that the enterprise market was going in that direction. It proved to be a wise choice.

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VP
Technial Lead at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

I evaluated Red Hat.

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it_user541425 - PeerSpot reviewer
SCM administrator at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used SLES for a few years on some hosts. We considered Ubuntu LTS, Debian Stable, and FreeBSD.

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NP
Teaching and research assistant at a university with 201-500 employees

We evaluated Red Hat Fuse, which is a CentOS variant. We used CentOS as it's free.

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Fabián Balseca Chávez - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Presales Engineer at GMS Seguridad de la Información

We switched from Oracle Linux because the solution is free and now private. 

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PS
Security Pre-Sales Engineer - Southern Reigion at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user357567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications & Systems Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated Sun and Ubantu.

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it_user538686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Corporate Systems Division at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated 1U servers, but using the four-server system we save money.

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IR
Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated Fedora.

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it_user466755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud & Monitoring System Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

We did not evaluate other solutions.

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it_user351633 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer | OpenStack Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Buyer's Guide
CentOS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about CentOS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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