[WBEL-devel] Availability of Whitebox Linux on 64bit processors

[William Hooper]

Milan Keršláger said:

>
> And yes - this is wery sad that the effort like this has been trown
> away by people at beau.org. It's useless and disillusion.

>From your comments I believe you miss what Whitebox was created for...
"White Box Linux's initial creation has been sponsored by the Beauregard
Parish Public Library in DeRidder, LA USA out of self interest. We have
several servers and over fifty workstations running Red Hat Linux and were
left high and dry by their recent shift in business plan. Our choices were
a difficult migration to another distribution or paying RedHat an annual
fee greater than the amortized value of our hardware. So we chose a third
path, made possible by the power of Open Source.... White Box Linux."

I'm doubting Beauregard has any x86_64, ia64, or s390 machines so of
course they don't care.  If I were Beauregard I'd reconsider the decision
to give this work away because it just seems to attract people complaining
that you aren't giving them this or that, too.  Duplicating work from
another project for hardware they don't own doesn't make much sense.

-- 
William Hooper