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VzLinux
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Reader supplied reviews for VzLinux
Average rating
7.7 from 10 review(s)
Version: 8.4
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 2
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I really want to like this distribution but unfortunately it has serious problems with keeping up to date.
A lot of packages are outdated with breaking bugs, they have been reported on the official bug tracker but they are just not taken care of. They pride themselves for being faster than the other RHEL alternatives to ship releases but they are way behind. Officially it is at 8.5, but many packages are still on 8.0, which is obviously not good.
No, at the moment I would not recommend this distribution to anybody. Hopefully it will get better.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-14
Votes: 1
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Update / Addendum to my review from 2021-09-18
"Very stable distro indeed. I' m using it as daily driver now. Gnome is okay, but it would be perfect with a xfce desktop."
8 months later: I don't need the xfce desktop, anymore. VZLINUX is still my daily driver, today. Let's say, we grew to each other. I learned to live with some difficulties, and changed many things to my needs. It is very safe and secure. This is no 'mainstream' distro, but if you go for it, it will make you more happy today than you were yesterday. I will keep it as long as possible. It is the perfect no-nonsens distro for me.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-01-30
Votes: 2
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I gave this distribution a good try, here are my findings:
The install process does not recognize my very standard intel wifi chip, but it works after installation is finished.
They claim to be super fast, faster than CentOS was at keeping up with RHEL. It turns out that they are quite slow. At the time of writing this review every RHEL rebuild project offers kernel 4.18.0-348.12 while VzLinux is sitll on 4.18.0-348.7 so they are effectively the slowest of the pack.
Affter installing from ISO, there are 2 weird repositories called "Started10" and "Started12" enabled. All the repositories are merged into the virtuozzolinux-base repository.
No support for secure boot.
I don't think VzLinux is as good as the other options.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 3
Date: 2021-11-19
Votes: 7
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Problems when clean installing on my server. Moving from CentOS 8 to VzLinux 8 also causes some problems.
Repositories are not the same as upstream RHEL but it seems AppStream is merged with Base.
Maybe newer releases will be better, it seems like the company is rather big. I can't figure out if they do actually offer paid support, something that all the other new CentOS alternatives seem to do.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-11-06
Votes: 1
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This isn't that easy-to-use and transferring from CentOS wasn't as easy to do- I received multiple errors after I booted into the desktop of Vz for the first time.
The UI is ugly though, and heavyweight, GNOME 3 makes it difficult to customize the look and feel, and GNOME 4 basically makes it impossible to do that. With GNOME being the most heavy DE, user-unfriendly and difficult to use, why do so many distros use it as either a default or a desktop environemnt use can install?
I want my server to be easy on the weight, able to be customized somewhat with the look and feel and
Some applications are a bit of versions behind, which doesn't make me feel comfortable using it because later versions of applications have newer bug fixes and the applications here feel stale and not as secure- which for a distro from Switzerland, being a private country with great privacy laws, it doesn't make sense to me why are things on this distro so far behind?
I hope things will be more updated using this distro and having more choices for desktop environments.
I give this a 5 out of 10.
It's still from Switzerland, so that's why it gets the extra point of 5 instead of 4.
I do look forward to seeing what will be coming though, so I am optimistic.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-18
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro indead. I' m using it as daily driver now. Gnome is okay, but it would be perfect with a xfce desktop.
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Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-10
Votes: 0
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The main reason why I installed it is this distro is Swiss-made. It is very basic and clean with Gnome desktop to start with as base for whatever you want. Very fast and puts a big smile into your face. Uncomplicated stable daily driver.
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-06-03
Votes: 2
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Trying to figure out why AppStream repo is disabled and everything seems to be in -base.
I filed a bug report for RH subscription-manager popping up as a dependency on a package and they fixed it within a day, so responsiveness is nice.
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-01
Votes: 0
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This is a very cool Linux distribution, as stable as CentOS 8 was before, no rolling release (like CentOS Stream), just an enterprise 1:1 clone which is what I need. 10 minutes, minimal installation, all is working!
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Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-31
Votes: 1
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Don't see any difference with CentOS for running a server, hopefully they will not follow that "Stream" release model.
A small bonus noted - htop is added to the main repo from EPEL.
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Latest Reviews
Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-05-16
Votes: 2
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I really want to like this distribution but unfortunately it has serious problems with keeping up to date.
A lot of packages are outdated with breaking bugs, they have been reported on the official bug tracker but they are just not taken care of. They pride themselves for being faster than the other RHEL alternatives to ship releases but they are way behind. Officially it is at 8.5, but many packages are still on 8.0, which is obviously not good.
No, at the moment I would not recommend this distribution to anybody. Hopefully it will get better.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-14
Votes: 1
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Update / Addendum to my review from 2021-09-18
"Very stable distro indeed. I' m using it as daily driver now. Gnome is okay, but it would be perfect with a xfce desktop."
8 months later: I don't need the xfce desktop, anymore. VZLINUX is still my daily driver, today. Let's say, we grew to each other. I learned to live with some difficulties, and changed many things to my needs. It is very safe and secure. This is no 'mainstream' distro, but if you go for it, it will make you more happy today than you were yesterday. I will keep it as long as possible. It is the perfect no-nonsens distro for me.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-01-30
Votes: 2
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I gave this distribution a good try, here are my findings:
The install process does not recognize my very standard intel wifi chip, but it works after installation is finished.
They claim to be super fast, faster than CentOS was at keeping up with RHEL. It turns out that they are quite slow. At the time of writing this review every RHEL rebuild project offers kernel 4.18.0-348.12 while VzLinux is sitll on 4.18.0-348.7 so they are effectively the slowest of the pack.
Affter installing from ISO, there are 2 weird repositories called "Started10" and "Started12" enabled. All the repositories are merged into the virtuozzolinux-base repository.
No support for secure boot.
I don't think VzLinux is as good as the other options.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 3
Date: 2021-11-19
Votes: 7
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Problems when clean installing on my server. Moving from CentOS 8 to VzLinux 8 also causes some problems.
Repositories are not the same as upstream RHEL but it seems AppStream is merged with Base.
Maybe newer releases will be better, it seems like the company is rather big. I can't figure out if they do actually offer paid support, something that all the other new CentOS alternatives seem to do.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-11-06
Votes: 1
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This isn't that easy-to-use and transferring from CentOS wasn't as easy to do- I received multiple errors after I booted into the desktop of Vz for the first time.
The UI is ugly though, and heavyweight, GNOME 3 makes it difficult to customize the look and feel, and GNOME 4 basically makes it impossible to do that. With GNOME being the most heavy DE, user-unfriendly and difficult to use, why do so many distros use it as either a default or a desktop environemnt use can install?
I want my server to be easy on the weight, able to be customized somewhat with the look and feel and
Some applications are a bit of versions behind, which doesn't make me feel comfortable using it because later versions of applications have newer bug fixes and the applications here feel stale and not as secure- which for a distro from Switzerland, being a private country with great privacy laws, it doesn't make sense to me why are things on this distro so far behind?
I hope things will be more updated using this distro and having more choices for desktop environments.
I give this a 5 out of 10.
It's still from Switzerland, so that's why it gets the extra point of 5 instead of 4.
I do look forward to seeing what will be coming though, so I am optimistic.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-18
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro indead. I' m using it as daily driver now. Gnome is okay, but it would be perfect with a xfce desktop.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.4
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-10
Votes: 0
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The main reason why I installed it is this distro is Swiss-made. It is very basic and clean with Gnome desktop to start with as base for whatever you want. Very fast and puts a big smile into your face. Uncomplicated stable daily driver.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.3
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-06-03
Votes: 2
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Trying to figure out why AppStream repo is disabled and everything seems to be in -base.
I filed a bug report for RH subscription-manager popping up as a dependency on a package and they fixed it within a day, so responsiveness is nice.
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-01
Votes: 0
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This is a very cool Linux distribution, as stable as CentOS 8 was before, no rolling release (like CentOS Stream), just an enterprise 1:1 clone which is what I need. 10 minutes, minimal installation, all is working!
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Project: VzLinux
Version: 8.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-05-31
Votes: 1
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Don't see any difference with CentOS for running a server, hopefully they will not follow that "Stream" release model.
A small bonus noted - htop is added to the main repo from EPEL.
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