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
>
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