| White Box Linux的目标是什么呢？提供一份基于RPM的“不受妨碍的”Linux发行，它保留与Red Hat
Linux足够的兼容性，能容易地进行升级，并保持与修正SPRM包的兼容性。它基于Red Hat Enterprise
Linux（RHEL）3.0，这意味着，一台安装该系统的机器将避免一轮又一轮的操作系统升级，直到2008年十月，这是因为RHEL承诺自发布之日起
5年内的安全更新服务。简而言之，White Box
Linux填补了Fedora和RHEL之间的空白。为什么要创建这样一份Linux呢？其最初的开发是由位于美国DeRidder的
Beauregard教区公共图书馆出于兴趣而赞助的。我们拥有几台服务器以及50多台工作站在运行Red Hat Linux，但Red
Hat近来的业务计划转变令我们感到难以承受及乏味。我们面临这样的选择：或者艰难地切换到另外一种发行，或者每年向Red
Hat支付一笔比我们拥有的硬件设备还昂贵的费用，况且我们的硬件还是分期支付的。因此，我们选择了第三条出路，这依靠开放源码的力量成为了可能……这就
是White Box Linux。 John Morris has announced the release of White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2, a distribution built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2 is now available for download. This covers Update 5 from upstream plus a few errata released since. The recent OpenOffice.org and OpenOffice.org 2 updates are included. The previous policy of skipping every other Update from upstream is being reconsidered in light of the year gap it has caused. Every quarter was a bit often for me to respin, annually seems a mite too far in the other direction." Here is the brief release announcement. The 4-CD set can be downloaded from these FTP/HTTP mirrors, while the DVDs are only available via BitTorrent: manifestdestiny-...-dvd-i386.iso (2,721MB), manifestdestiny-...-dvd-x86_64.iso (2,992MB). |
