 | | | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? 2005-03-14 - By Ken Snider
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mcclnx mcc wrote:
>I heard White Box is "clone" of Redhat AS software.
>My company plan to switch from Redhat AS to White Box
>to save cost. What is opinion on White Box?
>
>Does it stable enough? how about upgrade and third
>party driver support (e.g. Qlogic card, EMC powerpath,
>..) ?
>
Assuming you're referring to the "rebuild" RHEL clones, they are
essentially identical to RHEL, from a software standpoint. what you
don't get is access to RHN (obviously), Red Hat support (other than
Bugzilla, which both isn't support, and may not be able to assist you
anyway if you're not using a "real" RH RPM), and some latency on updates
(since the "rebuild" clones need to wait for RH to release an errata,
then rebuild it themselves).
In the latter case, I know the clones work really hard to ensure updates
are available quickly. We'd likely move our 100 or so servers to a clone
of RHEL if it weren't for the usefulness of RHN. Red Hat Support hasn't
really resulted in a speed increase on fixes over posting a bug in
bugzilla, really.
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