[clue-tech] Linux on a Dell PowerEdge 2300?

[William]

--- Greg Knaddison wrote:
> I don't see any such comment.  WhiteBox is a project of 1 guy working
> for 1 library.  He shares his RPMs when he feels like it.  Sometimes
> he has a life and gets behind on making them, but security updates are
> more likely to come quickly.  If you don't know much about the
> project, you shouldn't go around saying stuff like "it's dead."  There
> are many people who are very happy with the way that John runs
> WhiteBox.

I apparently made a rather comical mistake.  When I got home the night after reading your original
reply, I just Googled for "whitebox enterprise linux" and found:
http://whiteboxlinux.net/news.php

Thinking I was at the right website, I read the following (quoted exactly, and still available at
that URL):

"I've been actively involved in the CentOS community for the past several months. As most of you
know I've become disinterested in WBEL. CentOS is nearly the same as WBEL with a few minor
exceptions: updates occur in a timely fashion (usually 24 hours), the developers are accessible
(even if via IRC), and there is an active community (again in IRC atm)."

To me, that says "WhiteBox is dead, go get CentOS".  :)  I only clicked the OTHER whitebox URL you
provided a few minutes ago -- wondering how you could have missed that news.  The joke, as it
were, is on me and I appologise for confusing "whitebox.org" with "whitebox.net" <-- both of which
appear to be Enterprise Linux distributions.

> it's not intended for commercial situations so that
> doesn't matter, right?

Not _exactly_ intended for commercial situations.  That's not to say it isn't a production
situation.  I have 8 servers at home, from which I host all my own fully featured Internet
services.  Naturally, I extend those services to all my friends and club/college aquaintances.  If
anything goes down, I'm responsible for getting it right back up as quickly as humanly possible
because people use these sites and expect 99.9% uptime, even knowing it's a 1-person hobby
operation.  Because my network has such an exposed posture (having so many services on so many
machines), I have to stay concerned with security issues and keep updated as much as possible.

I just can't afford to personally pay for the level of software and service this kind of
environment requires.  :)  So, that brings me to where I am right now.  :)

=====
William Kimball, Jr.
"Programming is an art form that fights back!"  =)


		
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