"Cisco has a very wide network-based competency."
"The most valuable features are the pseudo-terminal and it is the most open-sourced operating system that can be used."
"You can do everything you need to do with a browser."
"It is stable and modern."
"The solution is flexible and user-friendly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Ubuntu Linux's most valuable feature is its open-source nature."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Ubuntu is very easy to use and you can manage it on your own."
"Cisco Piston OpenStack needs to be more closely integrated between different solutions to work seamlessly for the client and the deployment team."
"Linux does not provide a user-friendly interface."
"Management monitoring and interface could be better."
"I would recommend they improve the network security, because it can be very difficult. I mentioned that when you upgrade Ubuntu, the network cut is always deactivated, so you have to restart the service to reactivate the network. It is important to improve this ability."
"We'd like to have a bit more of a friendly user interface."
"The ZFS needs improvement. They do an implementation of the ZFS storage that needs improvement."
"Like most Linux systems, they can just keep increasing support in Ubuntu for hardware systems. They can increase the number of drivers so that Ubuntu can work on more hardware. They have been improving greatly, but they can definitely keep doing that."
"Better integration between the interface of the software and the operating system itself would be a benefit in the future."
"It can be improved in terms of user-friendliness for inexperienced users. It also has a lot of scope for improvement in terms of deployment. It is kind of hard for inexperienced users, and the learning curve is very steep. There is not really good documentation for new professionals. Even we are using network servers to install it."
Cisco Piston OpenStack is ranked 6th in OpenStack with 1 review while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 1st in OpenStack with 134 reviews. Cisco Piston OpenStack is rated 7.0, while Ubuntu Linux is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Piston OpenStack writes "The solution can be used for network services virtualization, but it needs to be more closely integrated between different solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubuntu Linux writes "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". Cisco Piston OpenStack is most compared with , whereas Ubuntu Linux is most compared with Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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