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Centos vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux: What are the differences?
Centos: The Community ENTerprise Operating System. The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code; Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Secure Operating System and Platform for Enterprise Hybrid Clouds. Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes military-grade security technologies—from network firewall control to secure containers for application isolation—to prevent intrusions and protect your data.
Centos and Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.
According to the StackShare community, Centos has a broader approval, being mentioned in 352 company stacks & 304 developers stacks; compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
Global familiarity, free, widely used, and as a debian distro feels more comfortable when rapidly switching between local macOS and remote command lines.
CentOS does boast quite a few security/stability improvements, however as a RHEL-based distro, differs quite significantly in the command line and suffers from slightly less frequent package updates. (Could be a good or bad thing depending on your use-case and if it is public facing)
Pros of CentOS
- Stable16
- Free to use9
- Reliable9
- Has epel packages6
- Good support6
- Great Community5
- I've moved from gentoo to centos2
Pros of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Well known1
- Paid sense of security1
- Learning curve1
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Cons of CentOS
- Yum is a horrible package manager1
Cons of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Tools and package manager change over time1
- Subcription fees1
- Glibc based with many complicated hacks1
- Packages have huge dependency trees1
- Default Install is lvm1
- Anaconda1
