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

[Seth Bardash]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Raimo Koski
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:06 PM
> To: Erik Williamson
> Cc: William Warren; whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] WBEL Vs Centos ? :-S
> 
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Erik Williamson wrote:
> 
> > > I feel no need to apologise for stating facts. What I am 
> sorry about 
> > > is that WBEL is giving all RHEL clones bad reputation.
> > 
> > Rage... building... must not... succomb... to silly flame 
> war attempt...
> 
> Not so silly if someone says WBEL is the best and the next 
> one says it is not fit for production use and the conclusion 
> is that all clones are bad.
> 
> --
> Raimo Koski  http://www.lineox.com  http://www.raimokoski.com/
> 


WBEL Vs Centos ? Not an issue..... for us at least.

We have been using WB on 2 of our 4 in-house servers with NO problems. 

One is a full blown dual Opteron web server with PHP / Apache / MySql / MS
front page extensions / openssl / ftp / etc... Used for web site
development. It has been working fine. 

The other is used as a server and a workstation with all the same programs
plus a KDE desktop and its working fine also. 

Both machines are AMD Opteron based and are running 32 bit O/S and apps
(needed to stay compatible with 32 bit live servers). 

We have also installed and used the WB x86_64 version and its seems just as
robust on workstations or servers.

Kudo's to the developer / maintainer!

We are just starting to test CentOS and it seems excellent also.

This is a religious issue. Use what you like / feel comfortable with. 

Both just work and are updated easily (we keep a local mirror).

If both operating systems have updates available in a reasonable time frame
that are derived from the RH source rpm's there does not seem to be any
"support" issues.

Most problems we have seem with any of the public domain versions of RHES or
"clones" are due to driver issues not presently addressed by some of the
hardware vendors. We have worked with most of these vendors to get the
drivers and their build/install scripts fixed to support these "clones".
Once that is done the systems with these operatings systems (both of them)
seem to run fine and are very stable.

In the past 4 months we have shipped over 250 systems with whitebox on them
and have had no problems except customer learning curve issues. Once
familiar with the software all of our customers have been very happy.

Just my 2 cents.... (not sure its worth even that much)  

;-)

Seth Bardash

Integrated Solutions and Systems

719-495-5866

Failure can not cope perseverance! 



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