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
On Thursday 31 May 2007 08:53 am, Shawn Everett wrote:
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.
FWIW, unless they've unsubscribed me, the last post on Whitebox-users appears to be on May 3rd. Many recent posts have been about switching to CentOS. We have three or four servers still on WBEL3.x. I'll probably move them to CentOS.
Jeff
Jeff Lasman spake the following on 5/31/2007 9:06 AM:
On Thursday 31 May 2007 08:53 am, Shawn Everett wrote:
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.
FWIW, unless they've unsubscribed me, the last post on Whitebox-users appears to be on May 3rd. Many recent posts have been about switching to CentOS. We have three or four servers still on WBEL3.x. I'll probably move them to CentOS.
Jeff
That was the last post. I haven't seen any new update announcements on Whitebox, but I am not running anything on it, so I don't see if it actually has any updates.
On 5/31/07, Shawn Everett shawn@tandac.com wrote:
Can you tell me what is the different between fedora / redhat enterprise / centos and whitebox?
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".
Agreed. We run RHEL on critical production servers and CentOS on non-critical production and lab servers to keep our licensing costs in check.
Thanks, Scott
Unless things have changed, Whitebox is developed by a single guy that seemed to refuse any help and was always late coming out with updates. But, maybe things have changed.
-matt
On 5/31/07, Shawn Everett shawn@tandac.com wrote:
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".
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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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