We performed a comparison between openSUSE Leap and Oracle Solaris based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"The solution is very stable after it is configured. It is hard to have a panel slow, a problem, misconfiguration, or any kind of loss function."
"The solution is easy for me to use because the backend is derived from FreeBSD and this is something I have been using for over 20 years."
"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"We use the solution as an internal operating system."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"The backup capabilities are quite good."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
openSUSE Leap is ranked 12th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 6 reviews while Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews. openSUSE Leap is rated 9.0, while Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of openSUSE Leap writes "Good virtualization capabilities, stable, and cost-effective ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". openSUSE Leap is most compared with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu Linux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), whereas Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise. See our Oracle Solaris vs. openSUSE Leap report.
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