CentOS is very secure and stable. It is on par with RHEL and receives a lot of the same corporate level security updates making it a great choice for all users. CentOS provides businesses with a very complete development platform for all open source software languages and some proprietary ones. Entire development environments are available with a few commands or clicks in the GUI.

So why consider CentOS? CentOS is a very stable, predictable, secure and free Linux operating system. It's one of the most deployed OSs on the server and most stable operating systems out there. Let's review some of the reasons why you should run CentOS on your servers, containers and potentially your desktop.

When we talk CentOS, the first thing that comes to mind is stability. But that's not luck. The community runs extensive regression and automated tests on new releases, security fixes and updates. This guarantees that your server will be running stable software.