 | | | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? | what is your opinion on White Box linux??? 2005-03-14 - By Rik van Riel
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Ken Snider wrote:
> 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
The problem is deeper than that. A "rebuild" clone cannot
fix one of their user's bug without breaking the stated goal
of being as close enough to RHEL as they can be.
If Red Hat support gets a customer issue, chances are the
bug will be fixed in a next update release. Users of
"rebuild" clones will have to take their chances and hope
that a RHEL user runs into the same bug, and reports it in
time for the next update release.
For a home system I'd probably be comfortable enough making
that gamble, but businesses might not be comfortable taking
the risk. Then of course there's the ISV issue, but other
parts of the thread have addressed that already.
Note that the rebuild clones can also introduce slight changes
by recompiling packages in another order than they were
compiled at Red Hat, which influences which versions of the
various include files were included by the compiler.
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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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