[WBEL-users] Conclusions for WB Linux

[Benjamin Smith]

I've been researching WB Linux for most of today. I discovered this just 
yesterday, and have been searching for an answer to the dillema posed by Red 
Hat: A) Pay too much or B) upgrade everything every year 

I'm now running WB Linux in a VMWare session, testing it, and reading thru the 
mailing list. 

Here's what I've concluded, let me know if I'm wrong: 

1) This is the answer I've been looking for! It's just like RH 9, only with 
security updates! Hoo ya! I love you all! Thank you Beauregard Parish Public 
Library! 

2) There's a real problem with mirrors being dull reflections. On my first 3 
attempts to update with yum on a freshly installed respin1 install, I got 
"nothing to do". So, to use this effectively, I'll be doing an rsync of the 
central repo and then running my own yum repository for my 15-ish servers. 
(They always seem to be somewhat in flux!) Is there a better way to go? 

3) There seems to be a fairly active community around WB Linux. I wonder 
when/if it actually forks?  (a la Mandrake) Will it eventually get folded 
back into RedHat like Fedora? 

-Ben 

-- 
"I kept looking around for somebody to solve the problem. 
Then I realized I am somebody" 
   -Anonymous