[TriLUG] Red Hat "like" Distro

[David McDowell]

CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and has a large
community following and support, #centos in freenode irc network. 
Whitebox Linux is maintained by one guy and seems to be far behind. 
The CentOS folks seem to be taking things very seriously.  As for the
legal stuff with Red Hat, Inc. ... Red Hat is protecting their
trademarks and doesn't want CentOS to be associated in that respect
for support (or if CentOS screws something up, Red Hat shouldn't be
hurt by it b/c they are not related, in that sense).  I can spell them
both out anywhere I want to b/c I am an end user.  CentOS has to
remove Red Hat's name and links from their website, so they will now
be referred to as a Predominate North American Enterprise Linux
Vendor.

At any rate, I am currently deploying CentOS 3.4 at work and I know
there are others in TriLUG with CentOS deployed in their production
environments.  It is a solid distro I am happy with and happy with the
community.  For relational purposes:

CentOS 3.4 - RHEL 3U4
CentOS 4 - RHEL 4 (just released in the past week)

I do believe there is a 2.x link as well, though I can't imagine you'd
be going that far back.

There are others... Tao Linux, Lineox, Piebox (maybe) and probably a
few others.  I can imagine they too will be targeted by the Red Hat
legal team soon enough for the same reasons CentOS was.

Thanks,
David McD



On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:35:39 -0500, H. Crissman
<hcrissman at secure-mind.net> 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
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