CentOS Linux vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

CentOS Linux

136 Reviews and Ratings

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

312 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CentOS Linux	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	CentOS Linux is a Linux distribution is an enterprise OS platform compatible with its source RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Its end of life was announced for December 2021.	N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.	N/A

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	CentOS Linux	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose CentOS Linux CentOS is based on RHEL, so it really came down to the costs when making the selection between our options. RHEL offered more support and features, but nothing that we specifically needed. CentOS is fully customizable, something Windows Server was also lacking in many ways. The … Incentivized Helpful? Kaitlyn Delacruz CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Yokai Sakura Limited (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose CentOS Linux Free no cost, Lower costs for support, and overall doesn't require a per licensing for each install. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose CentOS Linux Long ago we used to run Red Hat ES. However, the management of the licenses and stupid dashboards just killed us. Too much time was wasted on worthless administration. Support was not good either. Now I used SUSE way back in the 2000's and it was ok. About two years ago I tried … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose CentOS Linux For our development environment, we evaluated CentOS against Ubuntu and SLES, and actually did not end up picking CentOS, as our developers found it primitive compared to the niceties offered out of the box from Ubuntu. In addition, our developers found that Ubuntu had an … Incentivized Helpful? Bear Golightly IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager in Information Technology at Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose CentOS Linux When the rubber meets the road, any Linux distribution will do. However, RHEL and distributions that are derived from RHEL have a fantastic ecosystem of users, software packages, and documentation (which is generally compatible between RHEL-derived distributions) that make it … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Ngugi Muiruri IT support in Information Technology at D-TAG Europe Ltd. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose CentOS Linux CentOS has a longer release cycle; it also has a much longer support cycle. i think overall CentOS is more stable and secure. Incentivized Helpful? Valery Mezentsau IT Department Manager in Information Technology at Acceptance Solutions Group (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose CentOS Linux Comparing to Ubuntu Server OS, CentOS is better from the security hardening side. RHEL: from my hands-on experience it is pretty much the same as CentOS, but in lots of cases, costs money. However, RHEL has better internal, community and software vendors support. Windows … Incentivized Helpful?	Red Hat Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL is much more flexible in configuration than any Unix system like IBM AIX or Oracle Solaris. At the same time has the excellent release of updates and support that Oracle Linux or CentOS Linux doesn't have. RHEL has also companion tools in the Red Hat products which help … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Rocky Linux. CentOS, Arch about every distribution of Linux. Stability and reliability are king and the support. If something happens or you just hit a bug, that's why you go to Red Hat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Windows 11 has more stability and great functionality compared to older windows versions, and the gap between windows and Linux has shortened. You can pick from different OS’s to build enterprise level software on nowadays. But Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is still among the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Far better vendor experience and support compared to Oracle. Better security and update cadence compared to CentOS. Better docs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the ability to bring data together though Red Hat Insights is a powerful tool. This helps feed into other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) I prefer to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as my host os while using something like debian as a container image Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) the most is support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) It is more reliable than CentOS Stream and others. Also Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has a convinent support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Windows, CentOS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL is the most reliable and what our organization prefers Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Supportability Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Berg IT Specialist in Information Technology at Naval Research Lab (Military, 201-500 employees) Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) They’re all built from similar if not identical sources so they’re all compatible and often interchangable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Red Hat Enterprise Linux stands above Windows and Ubuntu, in my opinion, because of streamlined features, excellent support, and plethora of available documentation and user created tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) The stability of RHEL is the major difference between these two Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) The support for RHEL is where RHEL truly shines. Incentivized Helpful? Jessie O'Connor Systems Architect in Information Technology at University of South Carolina (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) They have their own pluses and minuses, but for what RHEL eight is and for what it does, I would recommend it above anything else for an enterprise. Two, consistency and stability of the environment, making sure the packages that our developers need are available and not being … Incentivized Helpful? William Finley Consultant in Corporate at Wolf Canyon (Wine and Spirits, 11-50 employees) Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RedHat support is the driving factor as to why we chose them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) We selected RHEL because it is a supported platform from our ISVs, because of the Enterprise-level support, and because of the long history of Open Source involved and community contributions. Incentivized Helpful? Maria Salinas Linux Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Consilio (Legal Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) We had to request support and this is one of the main features we need due to customer requirements. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	CentOS Linux	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (21 ratings)	9.3 (109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (5 ratings)	8.5 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)