Scott H said:
> 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.
If they are missing "great enterprise features" that RHEL does have, then
they are not doing it well. Also, I assume they are missing these
features because they can NOT include them. Which furthers my argument
that Red Hat is adding features that they do not share in order to keep
market share (lock-in).
-Derek
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