Dido, Thanks for the response. Actually, I've been thinking if it is ready for prime time as a production OS for open source apps.
Comparing it with Fedora Core, I think White Box Enterprise Linux is the Linux distro that is closest in compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I also assume that the Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Developer Suite SRPMs should compile successfully. Hhhhmmmm, will SMEs avail of services for WBEL3? Charlie --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:03:52AM +0100, Charlton > Lopez wrote: > > Hi, guys! I just wish to get your thoughts on > White > > Box Enterprise Linux 3.0. Its official web site > is > > http://www.whiteboxlinux.org. Will you consider > using > > it? Why? > > Interesting. I'd use it for demonstrations and > proofs of concept, but > not for an actual deployment. While it is certainly > *exactly* the same > code as what you would find in your garden-variety > RHEL3, it's not going > to impress Oracle support, the folks at QLogic or > Emulex, or most of the > other enterprise-level hardware and software > vendors. Names are > everything to those people, and even if it happens > to be 100% binary the > same as the official RHEL3 (which I don't doubt for > a minute), Oracle > support still won't listen to you. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
