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what is your opinion on White Box linux???

what is your opinion on White Box linux???

2005-03-14       - By MJang

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On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:23 +0100, Milan Ker?l??ger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:02:53PM +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?
>
> WhiteBox is terribly out-of-date all the time. Don't use it.

I get the impression that CentOS is better supported because of their
larger community (www.caosity.org). They do seem to be consistently
first out of the box with respect to rebuild updates.
>
> > Does it stable enough? how about upgrade and third
> > party driver support (e.g. Qlogic card, EMC powerpath,
> > ..) ?

Milan is right with respect to third party drivers. However, I hear that
Lineox provides commercial support for their rebuild (www.lineox.net),
but haven't tried it personally.

Thanks,
Mike


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