Hi,
For a few months i've been using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux. In fact, i've migrated all my companie's servers (about 20) to this RHEL distro like.
Well, it's not that i'm not satisfied, but WBEL is a one man show and that causes me some preocupation. And besides, it seems to me that it can't stand up to the rythm RHEL evolves.
That's why i'm writing to you, posing a few questions, if you don't mind to answer:
1 - Why did you choose CentOS ?
2 - If you have/had experience with WBEL, why do you prefer CentOS ?
3 - Is CentOS ahead of WBEL in terms of being up to date with RHEL ?
4 - Does CentOS releases an updated version everytime RH does ?
5 - What is (more or less) the time gap between a RHEL update and the correspondent CentOS ?
I apologise for the inconvinience and any help would be apreceiated.
Warm regards, Mário Gamito
For a few months i've been using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux.
Well, it's not that i'm not satisfied, but WBEL is a one man show and that causes me some preocupation. And besides, it seems to me that it can't stand up to the rythm RHEL evolves.
The reject of community support of the project is evident.
That's why i'm writing to you, posing a few questions, if you don't mind to answer:
1 - Why did you choose CentOS ?
a) Almost always timely updates to RH security errata. b) Friendly helpful people in #centos on irc.freenode.net c) the ability to easily migrate my wbel and RHEL boxes to CentOS
2 - If you have/had experience with WBEL, why do you prefer CentOS ?
I'd suggest you read the mail list for devel from December 2003 for my opinions on this subject.
3 - Is CentOS ahead of WBEL in terms of being up to date with RHEL ?
yes, generally unless a known issue araised as a result of a RHEL errata, patches are almost always out to the mirrors within 48 hours (if you want typical yum update capabilities). There was some lag around the recent U3 release from RH.
4 - Does CentOS releases an updated version everytime RH does ?
I think that is the plan going forward. I believe that centos 3.0 was actually RHEL 3 U1 OR RHEL with patches. CentOS 3.1 was RHEL U2 and now CentOS 3.3 is RHEL 3 U3.
5 - What is (more or less) the time gap between a RHEL update and the correspondent CentOS ?
answered already :)
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I have used WB a little too. The reason I moved over was the availability of support. I get answers to problems faster with CentOS on lists and irc. WB was good, but answers where really slow, and sometime I never got answers at all.
Cheers.
--- M�rio Gamito gamito@netual.pt wrote:
Hi,
For a few months i've been using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux. In fact, i've migrated all my companie's servers (about 20) to this RHEL distro like.
Well, it's not that i'm not satisfied, but WBEL is a one man show and that causes me some preocupation. And besides, it seems to me that it can't stand up to the rythm RHEL evolves.
That's why i'm writing to you, posing a few questions, if you don't mind to answer:
1 - Why did you choose CentOS ?
2 - If you have/had experience with WBEL, why do you prefer CentOS ?
3 - Is CentOS ahead of WBEL in terms of being up to date with RHEL ?
4 - Does CentOS releases an updated version everytime RH does ?
5 - What is (more or less) the time gap between a RHEL update and the correspondent CentOS ?
I apologise for the inconvinience and any help would be apreceiated.
Warm regards, M�rio Gamito -- http://www.startux.org/~gamito _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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I read in CentOS website that it uses a vanilla kernel. Why don't RHEL's ? Does it support SATA, namely Intel's ? Does it have backports from 2.6 ?
And what about plans for the incoming RHEL 4 ? Are there some ?
Thank you.
Warm regards, Mário Gamito
It uses the same kernel as RHEL uses. Generic in the sense that it includes exactly what RHEL included in their shipping kernel.
CentOS 3.3 (same as RHEL 3 U3) has some SATA support for boot/install devices. I believe older versions had SATA support, but not for it as the boot device.
The CentOS kernel includes all 2.6.x backports supplied by RH.
RHEL 4 is a VERY early beta right now. As far as I know CentOS plans to have a RHEL 4 clone available. It's plenty early right now as RHEL 4 is 6+ months from anything resembling a production release.
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Mário Gamito wrote:
I read in CentOS website that it uses a vanilla kernel. Why don't RHEL's ? Does it support SATA, namely Intel's ? Does it have backports from 2.6 ?
And what about plans for the incoming RHEL 4 ? Are there some ?
Thank you.
Warm regards, Mário Gamito
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mário Gamito wrote:
I read in CentOS website that it uses a vanilla kernel. Why don't RHEL's ?
I think you have been confused with cAos - which is what the website is describing.
That is one of the reasons why we are building a more specific centos website.
Regards Lance
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:25 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote:
For a few months i've been using WhiteBox Enterprise Linux. In fact, i've migrated all my companie's servers (about 20) to this RHEL distro like.
I use both WBEL and CentOS.
Well, it's not that i'm not satisfied, but WBEL is a one man show and that causes me some preocupation. And besides, it seems to me that it can't stand up to the rythm RHEL evolves.
CentOS and WBEL are exactly the same programs.
That's why i'm writing to you, posing a few questions, if you don't mind to answer:
1 - Why did you choose CentOS ?
I use both ...
2 - If you have/had experience with WBEL, why do you prefer CentOS ?
They both work well. CentOS provides updates a little bit sooner (on average).
3 - Is CentOS ahead of WBEL in terms of being up to date with RHEL ?
CentOS generally puts out the updates 1 or 2 days before WBEL ... they are both up to date with RHEL right now.
4 - Does CentOS releases an updated version everytime RH does ?
No ... but they issue new packages everytime RedHat does ... so does WBEL ... there is not always a re-spin of the ISOs when RHEL does one.
5 - What is (more or less) the time gap between a RHEL update and the correspondent CentOS ?
Usually with in 1-3 days. ----------------------------------------------- Having a one man show can be a good thing as well ... decisions can be made faster (There was X86_64 support much sooner in WBEL than in CentOS, for example).
CentOS, WBEL, TaoLinux and Fermi Linux LTS are all very good and totally free RHEL AS 3 rebuilds.
I think that the WhiteBox mailing lists are actaully quite informative and higher volume than CentOS ... but CentOS has IRC support and WBEL doesn't.
It is a personal thing ... WBEL was released first, CentOS provides faster updates, TaoLunix provides support for the most Architectures (x86, x86_64, s390, ia64 ... the others only support x86 and x86_64), Fermi LTS includes things not included in the others, etc. So there is something good about each distro ... but they are all basically the same.
Please, no flame wars ... as lots of people are on all the mailing lists. ----------------------- Johnny Hughes http://www.HughesJR.com/
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