[WBEL-devel] Choosing a RHEL rebuild project

[Henk van Lingen]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:08:01PM +0100, Milan Kerslager wrote:

  > WBEL is his on-man-show, but he don't underestand yet that cooperation
  > has more power than he ever will have.
  > 
  > WBEL has no testing updates. WHEL has no source for people's
  > contributing. WBEL has no power to release new security fixes ASAP (as
  > testing). WBEL has no Bugzilla. WBEL has no place where submit patches.
  > WBEL has no place where could be question-answer archive (this list has
  > no Reply-To: to this list so many answers are lost for others).

  Hi all,

  According to the archives, this has been raised before. I'm new to
  the RHEL rebuild thing and looking around which project I should
  try. I'd like the standardize on one, and can also host/mirror various
  stuff on a decent server (ftp.cs.uu.nl).
  
  It seems, there are 3 options: Whitebox, Tao and CentOs. The
  last, I'm not enthusiastic about. There is still no released version 
  and, more important, the project seems to build all kind of distribitions,
  build sets and whatever trying to be a debian-like community (I'm not
  that kind of free/gpl etc. zealot, more a BSD-license type (no flame
  intended) :-)).

  Maybe I don't understand the cAos community, but anyways, I'm looking
  for a project that tries to be very close to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  and I like using 'yum' with it. So there's TaoLinux and Whitebox. Here
  there seems to be some doubts about the project continuity etc. But
  according to the archives, it is used a lot and I see some familiar
  names. The TaoLinux archives are very quiet.

  So I guess my question is, why are you all here and not for example
  using TaoLinux. Any thoughts on this?

  Regards,

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