Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu + Debian

On Thursday 01 Mar 2007 12:28, Vic wrote:
> > So - you have the floor. Tell me why you think that I should try White
> > Box before I try CentOS. :-)
>
> I'm sure I'll come to regret this posting, but here goes...
>
> Whitebox and CentOS are both rebuilds of RedHat Enterprise Linux. That
> should make them near-as-dammit identical, in terms of the code you get.

Yes - that is why I more or less lumped Fedora, CentOS and White Box
together. :-)

> But I have a problem with CentOS. Not with the code - but with the
> developers.
>
> Over the past year or so, a number of them (one in particular) has spent
> his time on the Whitebox mailing list. Any time a question is asked - they
> respond with an attempt to get the poster to move from Whitebox to CentOS.
>
> Now aside from the fact that that is just plain rude, I think it shows a
> level of ethics with which I am uncomfortable. Given the implicit trust
> relationship between most users and their distro creators, that makes me
> unhappy with CentOS.

Yes - I tend to agree. But I'll look at both and keep that as a factor that
weighs quite heavily in the analysis.

Lisi