[CentOS] Re: redhat / whitebox

[Scott Silva]

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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