Target Distribution for the future?

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 08:23:13PM -0400, Brian K. White thus spoke:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > Here's a question that has been glanced off but, I don't think,
> > actually answered, in the last week:

> > With the demise of Red Hat Linux, what is *fpTech's* next planned
> > target platform.  Red Hat Enterprise Linux, probably, for one, but
> > there have been (the obvious) objections raised to that by users here
> > on this list, and I'm one of them.
> >
> > There's apparently motion in the FreeBSD ocean, and that's good, but
> > I'm more a Linux guy.  So, my inclination is to go with Fedora, or
> > Mandrake, or maybe KRUD, since I'm also a RedHat guy.
> >
> > Has anyone heard an answer floated, to this question of strategy?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
> 
> I think there are at least three equally arguable directions to go from the
> old redhat:
> 
> 1) suse - widely acclaimed as best engineered, most sane for working world
> etc...
> 2) gentoo - the most freebsd-like linux?
> 3) white box linux - they took the last regular redhat and try to basically
> just keep that going like it was.

Whitebox Linux is a supported Fedora based system with as many of
the RedHat logos/etc removed, at least according to their site.

I have the images but have not burned the ISOs.  One comment they
make is since RH has promised support for RHEL for 5 years, and the
start of that was fall of 2003, Whitebox feels they'll be able to
keep it uptodate through 2008.

Bill

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