tao Linux

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:42, Brent wrote:
> You may also want to look at CentOS, its another popular rebuild of rh es.
>
> http://www.centos.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=62&op=page&SubMenu
> =

Interesting, a brief comparison of the web sites for Whitebox, Tao and
CentOS reveals the following significant differences between the
distros.

Whitebox - packages built for i386 (but with i686 instruction order
optimisation).  Additional kernels available for i686/athlon etc.

Tao - packages built for i686 (at least I think thats what they are
saying)

CentOS - Uses vanilla kernels, couldn't spot what optimisations they
were compiling with.

It strikes me that using vanilla kernels doesn't really make a lot of
sense, surely the Red Hat patch set is one of the key selling points of
RHEL??  One of the reasons I'm interested in using one of the above is
so I can get a long product life span. with the added benefit of being
able to use the additional HP specific drivers that HP makes available
for their hardware.  I'm erring towards Tao, but I'd be interested in
any comparisons.




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