CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and has a large community following and support, #centos in freenode irc network. Whitebox Linux is maintained by one guy and seems to be far behind. The CentOS folks seem to be taking things very seriously. As for the legal stuff with Red Hat, Inc. ... Red Hat is protecting their trademarks and doesn't want CentOS to be associated in that respect for support (or if CentOS screws something up, Red Hat shouldn't be hurt by it b/c they are not related, in that sense). I can spell them both out anywhere I want to b/c I am an end user. CentOS has to remove Red Hat's name and links from their website, so they will now be referred to as a Predominate North American Enterprise Linux Vendor.
At any rate, I am currently deploying CentOS 3.4 at work and I know there are others in TriLUG with CentOS deployed in their production environments. It is a solid distro I am happy with and happy with the community. For relational purposes: CentOS 3.4 - RHEL 3U4 CentOS 4 - RHEL 4 (just released in the past week) I do believe there is a 2.x link as well, though I can't imagine you'd be going that far back. There are others... Tao Linux, Lineox, Piebox (maybe) and probably a few others. I can imagine they too will be targeted by the Red Hat legal team soon enough for the same reasons CentOS was. Thanks, David McD On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:35:39 -0500, H. Crissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't there a couple Red Hat "like" distros out there? I can't remember which > one is the most popular(ie. has the largest user base/community). I know > Whitebox Linux. But that is the only one I can remember. > > Thanks, > > H. Crissman > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
