On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Ed Wilts wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:27:19PM -0800, Jared Johnson wrote:Is there a "free" copy of RHEL 3 on the net somewhere?
There are several distributions that are similar to RHEL 3 - they start with the source rpms and then remove trademarked packages, rebuild, and redistribute. Check out http://www.taolinux.org for one example. Caos, Centos, and White Box Linux are others along this same vein.
Caos, of course, is not a RHEL rebuild, but a distinct co-project of Centos (which is probably the most widely supported one of the three mentioned rebuild efforts) in the caosity.org collection of projects. Centos is generally located at:
http://www.centos.org/projects/centos
I was testing, and discussing release plans for, centos-4 with both Lance Davis (project lead on the Centos-3 series), and several other of the development team on #centos of irc.freenode.net. Come join the fun.
Caos-1 was a proof of concept distribution on a community accessible buildsystem (initially hosted on Centos-2 [RHAS21-derived]), which pre- and post-RH Fedora could not timely attain; Caos-2 (entering its public beta) leverages the lessons learned with caos-1, a CVS based backstore, and Michael Jennings' 'Mezzanine' perl based buildsystem tool [ http://www.kainx.org/mezzanine/ ], and looks quite promising. Here is a screenshot from Greg Kurtzer's laptop from earlier today:
http://runlevelzero.net/greg/caos/images/caos2-abiword_gnumetric.png
-- Russ Herrold
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