Re: OT: RedHat cutting off errata support, Alternatives?

[Ben Hanson]

Alright, I've resisted posting to this just because it's off topic, but 
having explored it a bit, I'll put in my two cents worth.  I've 
installed both WhiteBox and CentOS on several machines, and the end 
result is almost identical, which is expected, as they are essentially 
RHEL 3.  I would lean toward CentOS for two main reasons:  1)  They are 
a development community (multiple individuals unlikely to all become 
deceased at once) as opposed to an individual creating a distro such as 
with Tao or Whitebox, so might be more long lived, and 2) using yum for 
upgrades, I have found Whitebox to be very slow, although I freely admit 
to having not explored mirrors.
Also, I upgraded a RH9 workstation to Centos3 no problem.  Just download 
the Centos yum.conf and do an upgrade.  There were maybe three or four 
dependency issues (development libraries I had to dismiss, but didn't 
need on a server machine anyway), and I just came back the next morning 
to my new CentOS enterprise server.  No issues.

Ben