Check out WBEL (White Box Enterprise Server).

  http://www.whiteboxlinux.org

It's a clone of RHEL compiled from RHEL sources by Beauregard Parish 
Public Library in Louisiana.

-mj-

Craig White wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 23:24, Nathan England wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 08 October 2004 08:41, Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:24, George Gambill wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a RH 8.0 system that used to be updated via Red Hat.
>>>>
>>>>What options exist to continue updating this not that RH no longer offers
>>>>that service?
>>>
>>>----
>>>Depends upon what you use it for.
>>>
>>>Workstation - want very up to date software? Use Fedora (FC-3 about to
>>>be released). Upgrade from 8.0 is indeed possible
>>>
>>>Server - I wouldn't use Fedora for this purpose, I would use RHEL or one
>>>of the clones. RHEL costs money, the clones are free. Clones are things
>>>like whitebox <www.whiteboxlinux.org> taolinux <http://taolinux.org/> or
>>>many others - google it -
>>><http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=RHEL+clone&btnG=Google+Se
>>>arch>
>>
>>
>>I'm just getting into Fedora, so I'm curious why you wouldn't use it for a 
>>server?
> 
> ----
> - too short of life cycle
> 
> The supported cycle is approximately 1 year. The update lifetime is only
> 2-3 months until after next release. For example, FC-1 has already EOL'd
> and the burden is up to fedoralegacy to provide updates...not proven to
> be something that you can rely upon.
> 
> - less than full testing of some of the pieces
> 
> The objective is to be 'leading edge' and not necessarily 'stable' - I
> am happy with that for my desktop usage but not for a server.
> 
> see the fedora objectives:
> <http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html>
> 
> The 5 year commitment of their RHEL product strikes me as much more
> ideal for a server environment and those that like the Red Hat packaging
> and layout can purchase RHEL with subscription updates and support or
> use one of the clones which update easily enough - but no official
> support beyond the mail lists.
> 
> I don't mean to dis' Fedora - I use it on my workstations.
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade #not my ideal methodology of maintaining a
> prodution server
> 
> Craig
> 
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