Whitebox Linux

[WipeOut]

Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

>From: "WipeOut" <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net>
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>>Daniel Veillard wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:12:31PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
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>>>>David C. Hart wrote:
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>>>>>Fedora looks more current. Is there anything in WB that is not in FC1?
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>>>>Yes, theoretical support for the current version till 2008.. :)
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>>>>Makes using Fedora great for desktops and development systems and WBEL
>>>>great from production servers..
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>>> Let's be cristal clear there, you might get support for Whitebox Linux
>>>but it won't come from Red Hat.
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>>Yes that is understood.. Maybe I should have worded my comment slightly
>>differently..
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>>I should have said that there will be theoretically be errata updates
>>for a longer period than is presently being offered by Fedora.. There is
>>in fact no support for Whitebox Linux other than from the Whitebox
>>community..
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>Okay, so that begs the question...IIRC, the Fedora community will only
>support a released version of FC for approx two months after the release of
>a new version, which means that FC1 and RHL9 will both have their
>errata/security update support discontinued at about the same time.  For
>what amount of time is the WBEL community committing to support a released
>version after the next one comes out?
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Its based on the SRPM's from RHEL3 so for as long as RH release updates 
to RHEL (5 years if I rememeber correctly) there should be updates 
availible for WBEL..

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>And will errata/security updates be available via up2date/yum/apt/some other
>automated scheme?
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It uses up2date with YUM as the back end just the same as Fedora does..

At lease this is all from what I have read on the website and in their 
mailing list archives..

Later..