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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!