My company plans to drop the use of CentOS since Red Hat has stopped offering it support.
The tool was useful for hosting our company's website and email servers.
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An open-source tool with a straightforward setup phase
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
The value that my organization gained from the use of the product stems from the fact that we were able to use our email effectively, and we had only done a small deployment for the email servers.
What needs improvement?
The product lacks a graphical user interface that can help users automate certain systems using the native features offered by CentOS. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience with CentOS.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My company used to host email servers with the help of CentOS. There were around 400 users of the product in our company.
How are customer service and support?
My company has not used the technical support of the product since it was a tool that relied on the community-driven part to provide help to its users. My company could use search engines to get answers whenever we faced any issues with the product.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have no experience with other tools in the market.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase was straightforward and not complex, especially if you are familiar with CLI. There can be an issue in the product's setup phase if you are a person who uses graphical interfaces.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
CentOS is an open-source tool.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
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.
What other advice do I have?
There was nothing special that I liked about the product in terms of features that were positive for team management in our company. My company only needed a robust system that was also secure. Though my company knew about various Linux products, a major reason for opting for CentOS stemmed from the fact that it was closer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I don't know about the stability and security features of the product since it was an area involving technical decisions that were taken care of by the technical domain in my company. Presently, there is no support available for the product, and I believe that the updates should also stop shortly.
We did not need any technical staff to take care of the product since everything was okay with it until our company took care of the updates and upgrades provided by the tool.
I feel that the product shouldn't be stopped, and CentOS should focus on improving the tool.
The management of updates in the product was straightforward, and it used to happen every week, after which it was usually promoted to production, but it was all manual work, and my company did not try to automate it.
I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.
Cost-effective product with an easy setup process
What is our primary use case?
We use CentOS for repository features.
What needs improvement?
There could be more integration features included in the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using CentOS for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have five CentOS customers. It is a scalable and cost-effective product compared to public cloud solutions.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process is easy. It requires five executives for deployment, including managers, admins, engineers, and developers. It takes around a month to complete.
What about the implementation team?
We take the help of a reseller to implement the product.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We don’t have to pay for the system’s licenses.
What other advice do I have?
I rate CentOS a nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rocking Operating System
What do you like best about the product?
For Enterprise users is free cost, Organization can save on licensing fees and reduce overall ITcosts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its has slow updates compare other linux OS, lack of User experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves reliability and security part. protect from vulnerabilities.
Linux Administrator
What do you like best about the product?
It's a downstream of RHEL, and very similar to CentOS and you get enterprise OS for free(Open Source)
Started by the original founder of CentOS.
Started by the original founder of CentOS.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its very new into Market.
Yet to be tested and widely used. Unlike CentOS which was proven.
How/how much will it get funded. Earlier Redhat was a primary funder for CentOS.
Yet to be tested and widely used. Unlike CentOS which was proven.
How/how much will it get funded. Earlier Redhat was a primary funder for CentOS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its OpenSource so helps fanancially.
We test or code in Rocky Linux before we move to RHEL
We test or code in Rocky Linux before we move to RHEL
An exceptionally stable product for testing different types of servers
What is our primary use case?
In my company, we use CentOS to work in my test environments on my laptop. I didn't implement CentOS on the enterprise server.
My company uses it like a work server, and I got access to services provided by Apache and ManageEngine, which I used to deploy solutions, especially the minor ones like Elasticsearch. I didn't use other solutions because of security reasons in my company. I use it for testing purposes related to DNS servers, directory servers, binding servers, and Hyper-V servers, which are minor cases.
What is most valuable?
CentOS is not very different from other solutions apart from its distribution since it is a free edition of Red Hat.
I find the solution's stability to be the most valuable feature of it since I have been using a virtual machine with the help of the solution since 2015, and it still works on all the laptops in my organization.
What needs improvement?
I don't think any improvements are needed in the solution since we can just use it to test Red Hat before deploying it in our IT environment. We can learn more about CentOS from Red Hat.
In the future, CentOS should provide a free or open-source version for its community, which can involve improving and testing it.
CentOS NetworkManager is an area of concern in the solution that needs improvement, and it is the same with other products from Red Hat. CentOS NetworkManager was better earlier compared to what it is nowadays. The implementation or configuration would be better if there was some new CentOS NetworkManager available.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CentOS for seven to eight years. I currently use CentOS 7. I haven't got ISO on my laptop to use CentOS 8 in my test environment.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a highly stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. When testing the product, I found its scalability features very stable while considering its impact on the testing phase I was involved in with the tool.
How are customer service and support?
CentOS has no technical Support since it is an open-source or free edition platform. If I face any issues or I want to learn something about the product, then I would have to learn them through the online communities for the tool. In Linux, you can find every documentation you need by doing a simple Google search or on the online communities created for CentOS.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is the same as installing an ISO file in Red Hat. The product allows me to configure the IPS and allows me for automatic configuration, making a big difference. If a person is familiar with Linux, the setup phase gets easy. If a person is familiar with Windows, installation will be hard for the first time.
Considering the use of the solution for my company's test environment, the deployment process takes only a minute or two.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
There are no cons in CentOS or Red Hat products. The cons are mostly found in Microsoft products.
What other advice do I have?
It is completely easy to maintain the solution. I haven't faced any issues with CentOS. For CentOS, I have a virtual environment on my laptop in a VMware workstation. If I face any issues with CentOS, it will be because of VMware workstation owing to the version or edition I use.
CentOS is a good product for testing and learning purposes. You can go with CentOS or Linux if you are into cyber security.
With CentOS, I didn't conduct or operate myself in a GUI environment for testing or learning purposes.
I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.
I really like Rocky Linux software
What do you like best about the product?
Rocky Linux's robust security, community-driven development, and seamless RHEL compatibility make it an exceptional open-source powerhouse.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited hardware support & occasional software glitches may improve as the project matures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rocky Linux addresses the void left by CentOS's shift, ensuring uninterrupted RHEL compatibility & long-term support. It benefits me by providing a stable, reliable, and familiar platform for my projects, avoiding costly migrations & reconfigurations.
Good OS
What do you like best about the product?
It's an open-source OS and free to use. Many companies are now moving to use Rocky Linux in their environment. It is a game-changer and provides full support for ten years.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, it is free, and lots of companies are using it, but I think shortly, it will start to charge for access
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is overall good, but it's a little hard to understand for beginners. But the experienced user is very great.
Rocky is built over RHEL kernel
What do you like best about the product?
Rocky Linux is free to use and is open source. The latest release is 9.1 and a lot of companies are adopting Rocky Linux
What do you dislike about the product?
Lots of companies are looking to adopt Rocky, and in the future, they may pay for their access. Also, the UI is slow on Rocky when accessed remotely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need a platform to deploy product so our organization has make Rocky Linux official for the deployment of their product.
Rocky linux
What do you like best about the product?
After red announcing discontinuing of centos . Rocky linux really is a game changer .
Providing 10 year life cycle support . It is bets open source linux left with us having thek features
Providing 10 year life cycle support . It is bets open source linux left with us having thek features
What do you dislike about the product?
Rocky linux over all is very good there are although few things I would like them to inprpve and that is their manual pages . Some time ut is hard to read theough them .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rocky linux is providing me thek features with stable release that I can work with .
It is really important after centos was discontinued by red hat as it gives flexibility to change code and play with it
It is really important after centos was discontinued by red hat as it gives flexibility to change code and play with it
Best CentOS alternative. Free distribution for Linux, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
What do you like best about the product?
It is an open-source community enterprise operating system and compatible with several system architectures like x86_64, ARM64, PPC64 and s390x.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow significant updates, as Rocky Linux releases major updates every six months.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rocky Linux is the best free alternative to CentOS and is based on RHEL distribution and is continuously supported by its developers, so we have moved some production applications to it.
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