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linuxbeta writes "A preview of WBEL4 (White Box Enterprise Linux) is currently available via BitTorrent. White Box nicely fills the niche between Fedora and RHEL. WBEL Sreenshots. WBEL FAQ. With this latest White Box Enterprise Linux release, is it time to walk away from RHEL?" Not if you want support from Red Hat, it's not.
What about kernel compatibility? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'd imagine all kernels were recompiled, at least to remove the word 'redhat'. I know I could download RHES kernels from their installation floppies and use those... but is that required to run precompiled kernel modules?
Support (Score:4, Interesting)
That to me sums it up. The *only* reason i can think of to go with Red Hat is if you need the support. Other than that.. what are the benefits?
YALD (Score:3, Interesting)
yet another linux distribution
imagine if everyone collaborated on say 5 distributions, fixed the bugs, polished the GUI's instead of the thousands of distros that are more-or-less the same thing.
MS would of been toast years ago
all the time there are these clones of each other they just dilute the brand and waste valuable manpower, these distros dont add anything significant to the table, its as if Linux innovation has stalled and now people are just resorting to changing wallpaper and icons , sticking a different logo on it and call it YALD
focus is a word that needs to be kept in mind, MS has been so successful because its a known quantity, i cant imagine the nightmares support/service companies will have in the future trying to support all these variations,
thats why Red Hat/Suse are successful
because they have a plan and are sticking to it, companies love consistancy and YALD is the complete opposite
Looks like WBEL is being discontinued... (Score:5, Interesting)
I've been actively involved in the CentOS community for the past several months. As most of you know I've become disinterested in WBEL. CentOS is nearly the same as WBEL with a few minor exceptions: updates occur in a timely fashion (usually 24 hours), the developers are accessible (even if via IRC), and there is an active community (again in IRC atm).
CentOS has launched a new dedicated site at http://www.centos.org [centos.org]
I have prepared a migration page for moving from wbel to CentOS. http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?fa
I am confused now. Who's who?
latest os design (Score:1, Interesting)
To make up for a lack of design, these OS designers have been adding more and more bars to the screen, in essence creating a lot of clutter. The top of the screen has an applications drop down list, quick launch toolbar, and date/time. the bottom of the screen has another button in the bottom left hand corner, a window selection bar, and a desktop selection bar. that's not it, then we have a menu bar that also stretches horizontally across the screen.
3 horizontal bars for 1 application. THAT is poor design. THAT is just adding more and more because no one is going to the trouble of doing a little research into designing something superior.
and please, don't give me the whole arguement about how the user can remove bars and whatnot. this is just a mask for poor design and complaining about changing from the default doesn't fix these problems.
oh, and for the other people who are going to say "why don't you do something about it". I think I will after I take my MCATs in a couple weeks.
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Re:CentOS (Score:5, Interesting)
Regards,
Steve
Re:Differences between Whitebox, CentOS, Tao? (Score:3, Interesting)
"You fail to understand the Tao. Go away." [kungfo0.org]
Re:Both are OK (Score:2, Interesting)
Regards,
Steve
Software? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I'm almost ready to dump XP (Score:3, Interesting)
In any event, you don't usually play games on enterprise Linux distributions. So your post is rather out of place here.
Since we're talking about enterprise Linux distibutions, what enterprise Linux really needs is native application support from vendors. You know, vendors like Oracle [oracle.com], IBM [ibm.com], BEA [bea.com], etc. That's what it needs before it can become a viable alternative to running the sorts of products that enterprises seem to like running outside of Solaris, AIX or Windows (or a few others.)(And if your sarcasm detector needs some calibration, click on some of the links I gave before you post a comment based on my comment ...)
WBEL vs Fedora vs CentOS (Score:3, Interesting)
And if there's a good reason to choose them over Fedora, should I look at WBEL or CentOS? I'm very confused by the conflicting statements on this site [whiteboxlinux.org] and those on this site [whiteboxlinux.com]. To my reading, the second site is trying to make it sound like WBEL is dead, and the CentOS FAQ "confirms" it, but that doesn't jive at all with the "official" WBEL site.
Redhats trademark and competitors (Score:2, Interesting)
Here's the scoop: Redhat hates CentOS because their salesmen keep telling them "we are getting caned in large data centres - they think we are expensive and are all grabbing CentOS instead." True conversation from the inside.
Redhats response: be like Microsoft. Try to crush the competition by using lawyers. Redhat is threatening CentOS by saying that they cannot even mention 'Redhat' on the site. Not only is this a deliberately bad reading of trademark law (fair use, comparative advertising yada yada.) but its pointless; everyone knows about RHEL clones. This article and the comments will point people to WBL & CentOS.
Redhat: you should start trying to compete rather than abuse the letter of the law and the spirit of Free software. Stop being a bully.
Re:CentOS (Score:5, Interesting)
Jeremy
Re:Mod parent up (Score:3, Interesting)
You mean like you can do with a single window and a dir tree to one side? (Genuine question, I've not used Nautilus at all in years)