[TriLUG] free RHEL alternative news

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Dec 3 21:41:21 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 12:42, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> Two major releases this week:
> 
> White Box Enterprise Linux - Pretty much RHEL minus the trademarked 
> artwork and support agreement.  RC2 is out now, though only by 
> BitTorrent at this time.  RC1 was pretty good so this should be nice. 
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org
> 
> cAos1-gp alpha 1 - This is a more radical departure from RHEL 2.1, with 
> a unique new installer (yes, anaconda is gone... but the new installer 
> uses yum) and more bleeding edge packages.  No ISO's available but you 
> can mirror the network install path presently via rsync. 
> http://www.caosity.org

Cool!  Anyone currently using the WH version?  I'm trying the new
SuSE/Novell - it's very nice but I haven't put it under load on a server
yet...  My clients are sure to like WH though - as it is a knock off of
RH Enterprise.

Jon




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