[WBEL-users] whitebox: the pros and cons of hitchiking

[Lance Davis]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Mario Gamito wrote:

> Hi Magnus,
> 
> Thank you for your precious tip.
> This weekend (when the bandwidth of my company is not at stress, both
> for us and our clients :) i'll mirror centos 3.1 and i will install it
> in a server.
> 
> I liked to see the manuals included in the tree.
> 
> Does centos have an updates repository that works with yum ?

yes 

Regards
Lance

> 
> Warm Regards,
> Mário Gamito
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 11:00, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> > Mario,
> > 
> > If you want all of the positive aspects of White Box without the "one man 
> > show" weak link, check out http://www.centos.org
> > 
> > CentOS-3 is technically the same as White Box but is maintained by a group 
> > of developers and packagers, so if one or two people disappear the 
> > distribution continues to run.
> > 
> > --Magnus
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Mario Gamito wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm new at whitebox (though i'm a Linux systems administrator for about
> > > 7 years) and also new in this list.
> > > 
> > > I disagree with with our fellow complains abouy whiteboxe's (lack of)
> > > quality.
> > > I think it's a great distro and my company is *strategically* moving all
> > > its servers and its clients servers for whitebox, at my advice.
> > > (i put an end of 6/7 years using only SuSE).
> > > 
> > > About the other issue, of course as a CTO of my company, it worries me
> > > that whitebox is a one man show. Someday, he may wake in a bad mood or
> > > get an excelent job and put an end to whitebox.
> > > And if that day comes i'll be in troubles in my job :)
> > > 
> > > Well, since i'm new both in whitebox and in this mailing list, i won't
> > > speculate no more abot these issues.
> > > 
> > > Just want to send a big thank you to the person responsable for whitebox
> > > (sorry, but i don't know his name) for the great job he did so far.
> > > 
> > > Warm Regards,
> > > Mário Gamito
> > > 
> > > 
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