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| DATE | 2003-12-22 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0
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I'm curious why NYLXS is not creating a similar product.
Steve M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Inker, Evan"
Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:33 am
Subject: [hangout] White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0
>
> For those Red Hat Users amongst us, a new distribution called
> White Box
> Enterprise Linux has been unveiled.
> White Box Linux has been created to fill the void created by Red Hat's
> Non-Enterprise Linux Withdrawal from the Public Market.
>
> After installing White Box personally this weekend on a Compaq
> Pentium 2
> 400-MHZ, I can attest to its ease of installation and all hardware
> deviceswere detected, including an ATI Rage 4 Video Card and HP
> LaserJet 6L
> printer. For those looking for an upgrade path from Red Hat 9 and
> not the
> bleeding edge Fedora release (still has some rough edges which need
> polishing), White Box does an excellent job and provides an update
> path.Please see release notes below.
>
> All those interested in this release and without broadband access,
> pleaseemail me if you would like a copy of White Box Installation
> CDs(3 Install
> CDs, plus 3 Source CDs).
>
>
> White Box Enterprise Linux Links
>
> http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-announce/2003-December/000003.html
> http://www.beau.org/~jmorris/linux/whitebox/
>
>
>
> Release information
>
> This product is derived from the Free/Open Source Software made
> available by
> Red Hat, Inc but IS NOT produced, maintained or supported by Red Hat.
> Specifically, this product is forked from the source code for Red
> Hat's _Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux 3_ product under the terms and conditions of
> it's EULA.
>
>
> There may be remaining packaging problems and other odd bugs.
> These are
> solely the responsibility of the White Box Linux effort and should
> not in
> any shape, manner or form reflect on the quality of Red Hat's
> commercialproduct. In fact, if you need a fully tested and
> supported OS you probably
> should go buy their box set.
> A fair amount of effort has gone into removing Red Hat's
> trademarks and
> logos. Should you find one remaining, please report it so that it
> can be
> removed. Write me about this and any other problems at
> jmorris-at-beau.org . Or
> join the devel list and dive
> in!
>
> What is the goal for White Box Linux?
> To provide an unencumbered RPM based Linux distribution that
> retains enough
> compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain
> compatibility with their Errata srpms. Being based off of RHEL3
> means that a
> machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until Oct
> 2008 since
> RHEL promises Errata availability for five years from date of initial
> release and RHEL3 shipped in Oct 2003.
> Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL.
>
> Why was White Box Linux created?
> White Box Linux's initial creation has been sponsored by the
> BeauregardParish Public Library <"
> target="l">http://library.beau.org/> in DeRidder, LA USA out of
> self interest. We have several servers and over fifty workstations
> runningRed Hat Linux and were left high and dry by their recent
> shift in business
> plan. Our choices were a difficult migration to another
> distribution or
> paying RedHat an annual fee greater than the amortized value of our
> hardware. So we chose a third path, made possible by the power of Open
> Source.... White Box Linux.
>
> What can you do to help?
> * Download and install White Box. Poke it in unexpected places and
see
> what breaks. Report problems so they can get fixed. As with all
> Open Source
> efforts, bug reports are good, patches are better still.
>
> * I haven't seen a final copy of RHEL3 and probably won't, just to
be
> on the safe side legally. It would be very helpful if someone with
> access to
> a copy could run some checks between my RPMs and theirs. Do both
> have the
> same files? Are they roughly the same size? Linked to the same
> libraries?Etc.
>
> * I only speak English and only have access to ia32 hardware. So
help
> with getting the other languages re-translated and porting to
> AMD64/Itanicare welcome. (Personally I'm not interested in porting
> to IBM big iron. If
> you can afford that lease, just BUY RHEL.)
>
> * One immediate problem will be bandwidth. The Beauregard Parish
> Library is a small parish (county) library in rural Louisiana with
> a single
> lowly T-1 connection to the world. Even with BitTorrent, serving
> up six or
> seven full ISO images will get insane very fast if the word
> spreads very
> far.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
>
>
>
>
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