 | | | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? 2005-03-14 - By Ed Wilts
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:20:19PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:02 +0800, 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,
> > ..) ?
>
> technical issues aside, you need to be aware that most ISVs (EMC, Oracle
> and the like) do not support/certify White Box Linux. So if you require
> a certified environment (if you have a SAN you most likely do) then WB
> might not be the best choice for you.
Further to this point, it should be noted that inot only will the ISVs
not certify on the rebuild, I have seen software that explicitely checks
to see if you're running RHEL or a rebuild and will fail to install on a
rebuild. It could be said that this is poor programming (e.g. parsing
the output of /etc/redhat-release or /etc/issue or looking for a .EL
kernel version) but it's something you need to be aware of. The
rebuilds are NOT RHEL - they don't claim to be and they're not. They're
not simply RHEL without support - they're technically different. White
Box Linux is not a clone of RHEL - it's a slight fork of the product.
It's very likely that if you need EMC Powerpath that you'll need to
purchase a RHEL subscription. Having dealt with EMC in the past,
there's absolutely no way they'll support White Box Linux - you can
certainly ask EMC for their opinion on this. One may also wonder how
you can afford the money for EMC hardware but not a RHEL subscription...
If you really need RHEL, then you need a subscription. In an EMC SAN
environment, I personally wouldn't rely on White Box Linux or any other
rebuild/fork.
.../Ed
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