Which distro for the enterprise now?

-- From: "Derek Neighbors"
> > What's to prevent me from buying RHEL,
> > removing references to RH and RH
> > logos, then selling it as FEL (Fred's
> > Enterprise Linux )?
>
> I am not sure if there is anything preventing
> you from doing that. However, I see two
> issues.
>
> 1. No one is really doing it well at this
> point. So Red Hat and their
> "license + support" is the only current
> option.

Actually, Whitebox Linux (www.whiteboxlinux.org)
is doing exactly that, and quite well. They
built from RHEL v3 and even call it White Box
Enterprise Linux (WBEL) version 3. The project
is legit and legal. I verified with a RH rep that
if the RH trademarks and logos and so forth are
removed, there is nothing preventing this, since
all of RH's work is under GPL. Of course, WBEL
comes with no support or any of the other
advantages to RHEL, like their web-based
administration and provisioning tools, which are
great enterprise features. WBEL is just another
option - one that fills a gap between RHEL and
Fedora.

There are other projects doing similar work, I
think like "cAos" or some such, but this one is
in the lead on it, and the WBEL project is
dedicated to maintaining maximum conformance with
the RHEL line.

/scott

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