UID question

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Jun 29 20:00 , Tom Aldridge, showing utter disregard for 
spell-checkers gave us this: 

> Fairlight wrote:
> 
> > So you're running a purely bleeding edge testbed demo box there,
> > right? Surely not a production machine.  Can't be!

> > mark->

> Charles Emmerson Winchester III strikes again! When I saw the
> posting about Fedora Core 2 earlier, I knew you would give this
> guy shit instead of addressing the question he posed.

> We are running Core 1 in eight satelite locations, all behind a
> dedicated firewall, so what's the big deal?

The front page as the web site has a sentence that says Fedora
"is the proving ground for new technology".  That's pretty scary
for a production server.  It also says 'this technology may
eventually make it's way into Red Hat products'.

That says you could start using something in Fedora that wont be in
any other Linux distro, and it could even be dropped.

However - you might look into Whitebox Linux - which is from
Beuregard Parish Public Library.  It is forked from the
source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - because the EULA
let's them do that.    That would be better product to base 
a production machine on instead of the constantly changing Fedora.

They do say that if you want a supported product you should by
the boxed set.  They've removed all the Red Hat logos they could
find.

Their goal is to retain compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow
easy upgrades and to be able to use the Errata srpms.

One reason they did this was that there will be upgrades available
through the EOL of RH 3 which is in the year 2008, as RH promised
support for 5 years from release or RH3 which was October 2003.

Beuregard Parish was running several servers and many workstations
and were left high & dry by the RH changes, 

It also supports up2date.

You can check it out by going to http://www.whiteboxlinux.org

I would certainly feel better with that than Fedora.

ISO images are available.

Bill

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