Oops! I didn't notice that CentOS was on the list. I'm happy with that and skip Whitebox. -mj- Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 13:14 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote: > >> > Am I missing anything that you feel *must* be on the list? >> >>YES, Whitebox. >> >>WBEL (White Box Enterprise Linux) is a "from source" clone of RHEL. It's >>free, has an active user mailist community, current version is >>equivalent to RHEL 3 and now that RHEL 4 has been released, WBEL 4 is in >>process, and updates are regularly made available. If I'm the only plug >>member using it, then a lot of folks are missing a good thing. > > ---- > I've pretty much given up on whiteboxlinux and switched over to centos - > there's a lot more people working on it, releases are much quicker - > errata / updates are much quicker and whiteboxlinux is suffering from a > lack of mirrors which makes it a real PITA to update. > > I like John Morris and what he's done - but the problem is that > whiteboxlinux rests on the efforts of a group of one - John Morris and > his first priority is the Beauregard Parish Library and he's the first > one to admit it. > > It took him months to get out Respin 2 (RHEL 3 - release 4) which I > needed to get installed on a new Dell server - I ended up using CentOS 4 > (RHEL 4) the day after it went final release and it's working great - > whiteboxlinux is - well, who knows when whiteboxlinux 4 will be > released. The errata - including critical security updates has gone over > a month from RHEL release to whiteboxlinux mirrors had gotten them. > Lastly the problem of the mirrors themselves - he's down to only a few > now. > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss