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RHEL vs CentOS

 


Nowadays the are more than 300 Linux distros. There is no one better than the other, each distro is different and one of them can be perfect for one user or unusable for another one. But, inside these 300 there are the contintents distros, that they aquired most of users and developers of the society. The other distros we can see them as small islands, not too popular but they have their specifics fans users, perfectly suited for their needs or their cusiosity.




We are going to talk about two of the "continents" distros of Linux, their features, pros and conts, etc.

The first distribution I want to talk about is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the gold stantard for the commercial Linux distributions. It is a high quality distribution created by two young american guys in 1994, available for workstations, servers, mainframes and supercomputers. It has become the most deployed coomercial Linux distribution in the public cloud thanks to the support of software applications and hardware devices. The security is one the most important features for them using system-wide security policies so apps automatically use the appropiate cryptographic package and implementing a predictive IT analytics service that identifies potencial issues before they become a problems (kind of an IPS into the lifecycle of the distribution). Even that, RHEL recognizes that even his distributions aren't safe from potencially devastating cyberattacks. 

Seems really promising these distro but we can say as a disadvantage that you have to pay for the use of it. There is a free trial of 30 days but then you can see at the Red Hat Store that the prices starts at 299$ for RHEL Workstations, following the Server Edition 349$ and more. Even though, many of today's companies choose this distro for the high-quality and support that it provides.


We can move to the second "continent" distribution of Linux, and I chose to talk about CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System). The comparisons between these two distributions are vey much in plain sigh as the major part of the goals between these two are almost the same. 

CentOS is a free server Linux distribution which curiously his upstream source is RHEL. Is not that difficult to get it up and run, newbies can do it without struggle. The beautiful feature about is that it costs nothing to use and can be a good learning path for developers and users who want to learn to manage servers and his features. Also it has a thriving community around that has created a wealth of learning resources. The downside of CentOS is that lacks enterprise level support and in general tends to be slightly behind RHEL, also it lacks certified cryptographic protection required on government networks.


There are many other interesting Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and so on. I talk about these two distros to see that even though they look very similar with almost the same goals, there are different with it upsides and downsides but they con suit to any user or developer, depending on the intentions.


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