CentOS Reviews
What do you like best?
The best thing about CentOs is that it has all the features of Red Hat EL but FREE.
It is fast, GUI is awesome and works great for Hosting your websites and databases.
Since it is Open source, if you encounter any issue in the system /server, you can just google the issue and I'm sure you will get all your answers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
To be honest there is nothing to dislike as such. However, the recent move of Red hat to not provide any further patches is very disappointing. :( Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is Linux/Unix, so with regards to configuration, if you can imagine it and you are a creative and skilled administrator, you can probably make it happen. Plus it is rock solid stable -- you get pretty much the same software packages as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, just a little behind on the timeliness of releases.
I use it at home and at work. I use it at home because I have five kids who click on anything and everything on the internet, and there's just not as much malware out there to affect a Linux operating system. Plus, it's just not as bloated as Windows, so performance is more efficient with the limited computing resources on my home computers.
Although I wouldn't run my mission-critical applications on it (since it is free), I feel safe running it in an enterprise environment for solutions such as firewalls, DNS, application front-end, etc. And you can purchase third-party support for it. It also has a great community of support on the internet, and software repositories are updated frequently and are reliable.
Finally, it runs on x86, so it works great in a virtualized environment (VMWare in our case) and can easily be deployed from a golden image over and over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Again, it is free and not "officially supported", so I wouldn't run my mission-critical databases and applications on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
So light weight and so secure. No bloatware and no extra ads. Just work to work. You will find all the necessary software for your daily use and that too in the simplest way possible.
Interface is very simple and clear. There is no fancy thing inside this OS. Just install it and start doing your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Although interface is simple, I will urge CentOS team to make it little attractive. Make all the software available for this version. Make sure once people switch to CentOS, they won't go away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The OS is quite abstract and lightweight which leads to installation of packages as per the need of user. This can help to get an isolated environment for your application running which can make developer life easy to have same environment everywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometimes finding packages which are needed by the application can be painful and hence leads to hit and trial. In that case, leading to a different OS is not the solution which can slow down th development speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS commands are very user friendly and we can remember them easily. Its similar to RHEL and the commands are almost same. Beginners can start learning with centos and get an experience with command line. Since it is open source anyone can download and use it for free. The centos community is very much helpful and knowledgeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The image is not light weight due to so many tools and packages. The GUI part is not user friendly. Apart from these there are no major drawbacks of centos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
1. it is secure in compare to windows
2. It is easy to learn and understand
3. It is free to use
4. It has so many softwares
5. It uses same commands as other variants of linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
1. It does not provide UI like interface
2. It is buggy in some versions
3. It has packages as it uses yum module
4. It is unstable in comparision to other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The speed of command execution is really quick even simple operations like copy paste are much quicker than windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
A bit more user friendly interface would be appreciated since the graphical interface is a little tough to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Simple interface and high level of security. Very easy to connect with server and work on server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Lack of a lot of application. As windows has all kind of software to work with, sometimes CentOS lacks many software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I like best that you can simply use CentOs to create smart software appliances.
In use with GUI it is a nice alternative to windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It is hard to learn and need high skill to configure.
Besides that you will need some programming skills if you use only the cli variant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's almost the same as RHEL, provides most of the enterprise features. It still adopts older standards, while implementing the new ones, so someone who started earlier (like the '80) still can use his/her knowledge to operate this system. Obviously, it's better to learn the new standards, but backwards compatibility is an important factor, it does help to veteran users.
You can get training from RedHat (for RHEL), but you can use the knowledge on CentOS. RedHat trainings and certifications are highly valued, it's almost like an university degree (probably worth even more). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Obviously, you don't have enterprise support (being a Community Enterprise OS), so you need the according knowledge for maintaining, or deploying this OS. People used to like yum as a package manager, my personal opinion is that apt is much better, has its flaws, but in general I tend to like it way more.
I tend to like the booting software of Debian systems more, anaconda and so are not that sophisticated as plymouth. These are little things, but in case of a broken boot, it does make your life hard when you need to fix it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Fastly it's free! That means they can download and use it for free without any limitations. For developers, that means they can access the code of the operating system at any time. CentOS gets things right in this department with excellent stability and security. Due to the focus being on running basic software variants, this OS has good speed even when compared with other Linux systems. As it is very close to RHEL, one can get the full flavor of RHEL, an enterprise Linux OS solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Getting support is not as easy as the ubuntu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's basically Red Hat Enterprise Edition, but without the support contract or the big license fee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The lack of official help desk support from Red Hat. But when it comes to CentOS troubleshooting, Google is your friend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Centos is a real alternative to the Official Redhat Release without the fee related to the license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The distribution will end during 2021 so it is not suggested to still implent this version on Linux in new Projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is a free and powerful Linux distribution from RedHat Enterprise. Is an ideal distribution for small and big company and personal servers. With CentOS is easy to create a new general purpose or specific server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometimes don't have the latest package version but the quality and stability of package is excellent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is base image for servers. It is very fast to use compare to other OS, easy to find solution for the problems as it is open source. It is reliable and secure too . Top of that it is free as it is an open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Major drawback is its updates, you wont find the periodic system update for CentOS.As it is useful for server so in personal computer and desktop we may not get the support and even after installation we wont have proper software support if any one want to install on CentOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is free, extremely easy to install. And probably the widest used Linux distribution used in organizations. I have only used the terminal version of it without a GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
No GUI for the version I used was available by default. It has very limited or no official support as it is free, most help has to be solved from forums Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is very secure and stable system, it has Easy installation process with sensible and secure defaults. Its very stable and reliable.High performance on the average hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
To maintain maximum stability, software packages may not be the latest and greatest versions but you can easily compile their source code yourself if a packaged version is missing certain functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is a lifesaver! You can do almost anything in it from using it as a daily driver to creating production grade servers using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The learning curve is high for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is great distribution to use for any developer or anyone dealing with large amount of data and compute intensive tasks. It is secure and open source, so there will be no need to worry about the cost and license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It was great to use but every time we wanted to update the kernel we used to struggle with NVIDIA driver or issues such as Cannot find root device after latest kernel upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is build from RedHat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) source code, so it has similarities with RHEL and compatible with RHEL community software repositories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Although CentOS is very secure and robust operating system, it still used old linux kernel (because of it's stability) and need a litte effort if you want to implement new linux kernel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It's basically a free version of the highly successful RedHat Linux distribution. You can get almost same features for free, without paying thousands of the dollars for the technical support. If you're technically savy, and you do, as otherwise you won't use Linux, it's exactly what you need. If you need a support, the CentOS community is pretty active and knowledgeable, so you won't be in trouble. My decision to select that flavor of Linux for our needs was mostly informed by my previous experience with the RedHat systems . All the packages that I need were easy to find and install using the yum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It's mostly question of taste. You need to get used to the Redhat-specific tools, like yum package manager. You can get into some troubles configuring selinux as well. Due to the presense a lot of Redhat-specific stuff, the system is not lightweight on memory and processor resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
CentOS is a linux OS, and is great for software developers. The ease of installing any developer tool is great, it's easy to do everything from command line, and not be slowed down by the user interface. Highly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The one biggest problem is that it lags behind other linux OSs in terms of updates. It's behind in the releases, so you might not always have the latest features that linux is coming out with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is pretty Straight forward to use
Top can be used to see and kill active process
Bash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Ram management can be improved further. It sometimes gets annoying to manage user profiles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Centos is one of the most useful operating system in the Linux family, it requires very fewer resources to run and offers the best redundancy and security of all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
as of now, there is nothing to dislike about centos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.