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WhiteBox-Linux

White box Linux also known as White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL) started as an effort to overcome the functionality gap between Redhat’s RHEL and Fedora Core. A public library was facing a difficulty of moving all its servers on RHEL and also had to pay heavily for the licensing fees. This gave the birth to WBEL.

The intention behind WBEL’s development is to create a RPM-based Linux distribution which is compatible with RHEL and to allow upgrades to happen easily. The project also attempts to retain compatibility with their Redhat’s errata srpms.

Because WBEL is a derivative of Redhat’s enterprise Linux product, WBEL is not targeted at home use. All the Red Hat brandings were replaced by WBEL, however the product is otherwise the same as RHEL. The software installation of White box is somewhat similar to that of Anaconda based distributions. It takes around 21 minutes to install WBEL.

The up2date agent used by RHEL has been modified by White Box to use Fedora’s yum. Whitebox is up to date with OpenSSL and Samba. Up2date is the main focus of the project, for people looking to upgrade for their versions of Red Hat to a free version.

See Also

  • CentOS – another free RHEL distribution

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RHEL

RedHat Enterprise Linux is an Enterprise Linux distribution provided by RedHat.

RedHat charges money for the binary distributions of RHEL, however in accordance with the GPL, they also offer the source code to the operating system.

Several projects have taken advantage of the source code to provide binary compatible distributions of RHEL, including the popular CentOS, WhiteBox Linux and others.

here is an easy guide to setting up CentOS 4.5. CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL.

Fedora-Core

Fedora Core is a community linux-distribution from Redhat. Version 8 is the most recent release. Fedora 9 is expected in April, 2008.

Fedora Core is RPM based, using the yum package management system.

The design of Fedora Core is centered around creating a general purpose distro that is easy to use and up-to-date, the Fedora project typically releases every 6 months.

Fedora is developed by Redhat, and the distro derives from the original eponymous distribution that has since forked into two branches, the cutting edge community based Fedora Core and the enterprise focused Red Hat Enterprise License.

For a window manager, Fedora Core uses GNOME, but also includes KDE. Other notable packages include Mono and Eclipse.

Documentation: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Project Wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

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CentOS

CentOS or Community ENTerprise Operating System is a community-based release of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), built from the sources of RHEL. The project was started due to the fact that RedHat does not release binaries for RHEL free of charge.

Thus CentOS aims for binary compatibility with RHEL, but all copyrights and trademarked RedHat content outside of the source code, such as trademarked terms or images, is replaced.

A guide for setting up CENTOS with a number of services, including email, LAMP, dns and ftp

To echo the package management system controlled by RedHat, CentOS instead uses a mirror network to obtain release or updates through the same package management used by RHEL: yum and up2date.

Also See

RedHat

Red Hat Linux is one of the first Linux distributions and has one of the largest market shares, particularly amongst US-based corporations.

Red Hat has since evolved into Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux: the last release of Red Hat Linux was on March 31st, 2003.

SourceLabs provides a Self-Support Suite of Tools for RedHat Linux.

Search the SourceLabs repository for recent RedHat Enterprise Linux issues