On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:38, Mike MacCana wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 04:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Back in November, I wrote: > > > > > BTW, it's not impossible that some enterprising (heh) > > > person will download the src.rpms for the enterprise > > > versions of redhat and make an iso out of them. It > > > wouldn't be legally wrong afaik. > > > > > > Well it looks like someone's done it: > > > > http://whiteboxlinux.org/ > > Indeed. There's a couple of other projects that do this too (though > white box seems to the most popular and I can't be arsed finding the > URLs for others). > > Since the SRPMS for RHEL updates are also available (as they should be), > and various yum / apt repositories serve rebuilt binaries of them, > whitebox might be a good choice for organizations who want to install a > box and keep it running for (up to) five years without ever having to > upgrade anything.
White Box users would still have to upgrade various components with each errata release. I assume you mean no overall distro upgrade, which would in fact be true. mcm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
