CentOS - May 2007 - redhat / whitebox

Hi all

Can you tell me what is the different between fedora /
redhat enterprise / centos and whitebox?

Thank you


 
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> Hi all
>
> Can you tell me what is the different between fedora /
> redhat enterprise / centos and whitebox?
>
> Thank you
Fedora is the Redhat/Community supported free distro.  As it gets more and
more kinks worked out it's used as the basis for Red Hat Enterprise.

Whitebox is just another open source distro based on the SRPMs provided by
Red Hat.  I prefer CentOS as it seems to be better supported by community.

Red Hat Enterprise is the offical paid distro from Red Hat.  You get
support from RH and the various vendors.  Use it if you have something
very mission critical and you don't want to hear the phrase "we
don't
support that".

Shawn

ann kok spake the following on 5/31/2007 7:45 AM:
> Hi all
> 
> Can you tell me what is the different between fedora /
> redhat enterprise / centos and whitebox?
> 
> Thank you
Fedora is the "proving grounds" for RedHat. It is where they try all
sorts of
new and interesting things. A new version of Fedora comes out every 6 months
to a year or so. The best and most stable of these new ideas gets incorporated
into RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Linux) every couple of years. RHEL gets supported
for 5 to 7 years.
CentOS and Whitebox ( and several other similar distros) are just rebuilds of
RHEL. They remove the trademarked parts and release a "clone". Some of
the
clones get more support than others, and some are free and some are not.
Whitebox was a very popular clone a few years ago, but has seemed to be less
supported lately. CentOS seems to be one of the best supported and most
popular of the rebuilds.

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