User Reviews of CentOS

Updated October 2026

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CentOS review

AnilKumar13
AnilKumar13
Devops Engineer at EDAG
Cost-effective platform has enabled extensive test environments with rapid server...
The best features CentOS offers in my experience are that it is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to scale. When I mention reliability and cost-effectiveness, I explain that our product-based company uses a performance testing tool, so to generate load using the tool, we use CentOS generators, which are also known as VMs. We spin up a...
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R Kirishikaran
R Kirishikaran
Technical person at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Linux server has streamlined secure authentication and supports fast integration...
Regarding how CentOS can be improved, I am primarily expecting stronger security features on the security side. CentOS RADIUS server handles sensitive authentication data, so improving security is the priority. Enforcing SE-Linux with custom policies tuned for FreeRADIUS and enabling automatic security updates would be helpful. I would also...

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