[WBEL-users] WBEL Vs Centos ? :-S

[Raimo Koski]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, [NICK] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I work for a small company whom are just "too poor" to buy RHEL :-(
> 
> I'm looking to upgrade from RH9 and would like to get some users opinion.

I wrote http://developer.lineox.org/white_paper.html originally as some 
kind of response to the UserLinux white paper, but Ladislaw Bodnar of 
Distrowatch referred it as some kind of comparison of RHEL clones. I did 
expand that part a little after that because there isn't any other attempt 
to compare or more importantly a check list of what should be compared.

Someone here wrote recently that someone else had claimed that WBEL is the 
best. That is just plain silly. The biggest differences are like missing 
/etc/redhat-release file in WBEL, stupid version number 1.0 and ugly 
graphics in Tao, missing up2date support in Lineox, etc. All trivial. The 
real diffence is harder to measure. How fast and reliably are updates 
available and how likely is their continued availablility in the many 
years to come? So far WBEL has performed badly. The most recent biggish 
performance mark was Update 3. Lineox had respins ready in 4 days, CentOS 
in 2 weeks, Scientific came soon after that, Tao had about 2 month delay 
and WBEL isn't yet ready after 3 months.

Upgrading from RH9 should be easy and Lineox site has a HOWTO describing 
the process. Note that "linux upgradeonly" at the boot prompt is the 
easiest, but not the best way.


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Raimo Koski  http://www.lineox.com  http://www.raimokoski.com/