--- description: Review of CentOS Linux Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: CentOS Linux | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Operating Systems Software](/directory/4417/operating-systems/software) > [CentOS Linux](/software/221179/centos-linux) # CentOS Linux Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/221179/centos-linux Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/221179/centos-linux?page=2) > CentOS Linux is an operating system (OS) that helps professionals streamline processes related to partition backups, data security management, spam filtering, kernel building, and more on a centralized platform. It enables users to eliminate bare-metal attacks against hard drives by encrypting files, archiving data and managing user passwords using the dm-crypt tool. CentOS Linux enables businesses to set up public mirror sites and create schedules for data synchronization with mirror networks. With the virtual mail backend system, users can store domain and user configurations, including LDAP, PostgreSQL and My SQL. Additionally, it lets administrators configure full-virtualization and paravirtualization utilizing KVM and Xen technologies. CentOS Linux allows individuals to migrate the system from older CentOS versions or third-party Linux distributors, such as Scientific Linux, WhiteBox and TaoLinux. It is an open-source platform that is available for free. It extends support via documentation, FAQs, discussion forums, video tutorials, email and other online measures. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 34 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 34 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: The CentOS Project - **Founded**: 2009 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: CentOS Linux is available for free - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Linux (Desktop), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Data Security - Kernels - System Updates - User Interface ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Operating Systems Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4417/operating-systems/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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There is barely ever any exploits for CentOS compared to other operating systems, the firewall is great and new patches are always secure. > > **Cons**: The only slight gripe that I have with CentOS is that not all packages which you can get on other distros are available out of the box. > > CentOS has improved my knowledge of Linux greatly and helps me in my day to day business life whether it's for web hosting, or getting a new project set up online. ----- ### "Open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *29 July 2021* | Hospital & Health Care | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is free. You get the same binaries as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, except for the Red Hat Network portion, and it is usually available a few weeks after a given Red Hat release. It is more secure and stable than Windows. Since it is widely adopted, there are lots of web sites for software and knowledge bases. > > **Cons**: It is an unsupported release, although you can buy third-party support. I have not done this. It is less widely adopted and somewhat more difficult to use than Windows, but is not a problem for a skilled Unix administrator. > > We use CentOS in mostly three environments: 1) application test environments where we don't need 24/7 support and can afford to do things ourselves; 2) internal IT utilities like firewalls, DNS, backup proxies, management servers where we have multiple servers doing the same job or doing things that only affect IT admins and don't require 24/7 support; 3) embedded in supported vendor turnkey solutions. If we need to run Linux in a production application/database environment, we run Red Hat and pay for support. ----- ### "CentOS Linux now is a rolling relaase" — 5.0/5 > **Emiliano Ariel** | *10 June 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: This is a great software for most of uses. I use this on several servers. Has a lot of documentation, great comunity support. > > **Cons**: This OS change your release type. Will be a rolling release and i don't like it. You need to move to RedHat Enterprise o another distro like Debian or Ubuntu if you need stability in your environment. > > It's one of the most used OS in servers arround the world. The free version of REHL. Great community support. Now some users move to Rocky Linux the fork of this. ----- ### "CentOS Honest Review" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *13 November 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: CentOS is an open source operating system, it's easy to use and features are awesome.i like the security feature the most.CentOS graphical user interface is fantastic, nowadays every organisation needs Linux at any point of time, I would say CentOS is best OS for beginners you can easily learn and understand Linux . > > **Cons**: CentOS is little bit outdated than other OS like windows and Mac. I would if UI of CentOS can be enhanced and some new features will be added then it will be great.Installing the new packages is not easy in CentOS as compare to other OS. > > When I started my career as infrastructure engineer, my almost work is related to Linux, at my early stage it was difficult for me to learn and understand Linux but centOS solves the problem to learn linux. Now I can easily understand Linux and can do my daily tasks more efficiently and perfectly. Also almost every organisation has adapted cloud so it is easy to move from CentOS to Amazon cloud Linux. I would say if you are at your learning phase then CentOS is the best. Also if have small or medium enterprise then there is nothing better than CentOS. ----- ### "CentOS user review" — 4.0/5 > **Nishant** | *26 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Centos runs only the most stable version of codes and integrates it as well.The CLI works buttery smooth and is superfast > > **Cons**: CentOS has a small database and still emerging and developing.So not much updates.. Overall its great. > > Overall, it has been a good experience along with working on ubuntu, fedora, suse for different work purpose ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/221179/centos-linux?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/221179/centos-linux) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data