Whitebox Linux install

[Stephen Swaney]

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:43 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Re: Whitebox Linux install
> 
> Phil Udel spake the following on 9/1/2006 12:13 PM:
> > Hi.
> > I have been playing around with Whitebox 4.0 and thought I would use it
> > instead of RedHat 4.0 for my new mailserver. I tried the rpm install but
> it
> > can't find redhat/src.  whitebox changed the names to whitebox. lol
> > Has anyone here used Whitebox with a rpm install?
> >
> >
> I was playing with Whitebox for a while, but I have found more and more
> people
> to be moving to CentOS. No offense to John Morris, but I don't think he
> really
> envisioned Whitebox as a distro for the masses, and he updates it when he
> has
> the time. And he seems to still be busy after hurricane Katrina hit not
> too
> far south of him.
>  That leaves you with a system that might be somewhat behind on security
> updates.
> 

Ditto!! 

John Morris put out a very competently packaged distro. We used and
recommended before CentOS was around. 

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com