[TriLUG] Red Hat "like" Distro

[James Brigman]

H. Crissman wrote:

>Isn't there a couple Red Hat "like" distros out there? I can't remember which 
>one is the most popular(ie. has the largest user base/community). I know 
>Whitebox Linux. But that is the only one I can remember.
>
>Thanks,
>
>H. Crissman
>  
>
H, et. al;

CentOS 4RC1 (www.centos.org)  is "child of whitebox". A source code 
recompilation of RHEL 4.  As I understand it, the guy who did White Box 
has joined up with the cAos team to produce CentOS. This weekend, I 
spent some time upgrading a couple of my older Red Hat 9.0 boxes to 
CentOS. I'm happy with the results, and it gives me a "Red Hat Sandbox" 
I can use at home to do highly destructive or risky things with.

I also used bittorrent for the first time to download it. Got the five 
ISO images in about 40 minutes...Bittorrent rocks!

To be fair: CentOS is not "RedHat Like": it IS Red Hat source code 
recompiled...so it should work the same, warts and all.

JKB