On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 06:08, George Toft wrote:
> Turns out a public library in Louisiana took all the source RPMs for Red 
> Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, wrote some scripts to compile and build CD-ROM 
> images and posted it.  They stripped out all the RH logos, yet retained 
> the copyright statements so as to be compliant and non-infringing.  They 
> don't promise the same stability as RHEL (which BTW Rox!) but this is 
> how they solved the problem caused by the change in RH's change in 
> business model.
> 
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org
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This project has been ongoing since last year. I am presently using it
on my own 'server' and it works fine. I updated an RH 8.0 configuration
using the 'updateany' parameter and I only had to remove the items that
I installed separate from the RH 8.0 installation and re-install them.

There are other RHEL 'clones' - most of them are a bit more faithful to
the RHEL distribution, such as caos and taolinux. WhiteBoxLinux actually
provides a combined product of the RH AS/ES/WS offering and even puts
the 'kernel-unsupported' modules of RHEL back into the kernel. I am not
troubled by this but some people want to use it exactly the way RH does
it. Since I am using RH AS 3 in a few locations and whiteboxlinux at
home, I cannot seem any real difference except that RHEL is a little
more painful to use a new kernel if you use the kernel-unsupported (or
kernel-smp-unsupported) because both have to be updated/installed
simultaneously. Lastly, these RHEL clones can use apt/yum repositories
for the RHEL product and though my interest in using RHEL/whitebox is
for server use, it is handy to be able to use packaging that Red Hat
omits for whatever reason (licensing, philosophy, lack of testing,
etc.).

Craig

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