NewsForge: Review: White Box Fills Niche Between Fedora and RHEL

“White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL) is an attempt to fill the
void left by Red Hat’s decision to become a purely commercial
product. It’s not without problems, but it does a bridge the
functionality gap between the Fedora Project and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL).

“WBEL was born when the Beauregard Parish (La.) Public Library
faced the difficult choice of moving all its servers to RHEL and
paying large sums in licensing fees, or moving to a different
distro. It chose to sponsor the creation of White Box Linux. What
exactly is White Box…?”

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