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White Box Enterprise Linux


Last Update: 2024-02-02 02:44 UTC


What is the goal for White Box Linux? To provide an unencumbered RPM-based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their errata SRPMs. Being based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until October 2008 since RHEL promises errata availability for 5 years from date of initial release. Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL. Why was White Box Linux created? Its initial creation was sponsored by the Beauregard Parish Public Library in DeRidder, USA out of self interest. We have several servers and over 50 workstations running Red Hat Linux and were left high and dry by Red Hat's recent shift in business plan. Our choices were a difficult migration to another distribution or paying Red Hat an annual fee greater than the amortized value of our hardware. So we chose a third path, made possible by the power of open source.... White Box Linux.

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White Box Summary
Distribution White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL)
Home Page http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
Mailing Lists http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo
User Forums --
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Documentation http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/howto.html
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Download Mirrors http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2007-06-21: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2
 • 2006-05-02: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 1
 • 2005-05-07: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 4
 • 2005-04-01: Development Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 4 RC1
 • 2005-03-14: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 Respin 2
 • 2004-06-17: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 Respin 1
 • 2003-12-18: Distribution Release: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0
 • More White Box releases...

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Feature 4r2
manifest
3.0r2
liberation
Release Date 2007-06-21 2005-03-14
End Of Life    
Price (US$) Free Free
Image Size (MB) 0-0  
Free Download ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop GNOME GNOME
Package Management RPM RPM
Release Model Fixed Fixed
Office Suite OO.o OO.o
Processor Architecture i386 i386, x86_64
Init Software other other
Journaled File Systems ext3 ext3
Multilingual Yes Yes
Asian Language Support cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw
Full Package List   3.0r2
Package 4r2
manifest
3.0r2
liberation
abiword (3.0.5) -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.13) 1.0.6 --
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- --
bash (5.2.37) 3.0 2.05b
bind (9.20.3) 9.2.4 9.2.4
chromium (131.0.6778.108) -- --
cups (2.4.11) 1.1.22rc1 1.1.17
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 3.0.1 3.0.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.1) 1.35 1.32
firefox (133.0.3) 1.5.0.12 --
freetype (2.13.3) 2.1.9 2.1.4
gcc (14.2.0) 3.4.6 3.2.3
gimp (2.10.38) 2.0.5 1.2.3
glibc (2.40) 2.3.4 2.3.2
gnome-shell (47.2) -- --
gnucash (5.9) -- --
gnumeric (1.12.57) -- --
grub (2.12) 0.95 0.93
gtk (4.16.7) 2.4.13 2.2.4
httpd (2.4.62) 2.0.52 2.0.46
inkscape (1.4) -- --
k3b (24.08.3) 0.11.14 --
kmod (33) -- --
krita (5.2.6)    
LibreOffice (24.8.3) 2.0.4 1.1.0
linux (6.12.4) 2.6.9 2.4.21
Package 4r2
manifest
3.0r2
liberation
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- --
mariadb (11.5.2)    
mate-desktop (1.28.2) -- --
mesa (24.3.1) 6.8.1 4.3.0
mysql (9.1.0) 4.1.20 3.23.58
nautilus (47.1) 2.8.1 2.2.4
NVIDIA (565.77) -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- --
openjdk (23.0.1) -- --
openssh (9.9p1) 3.9p1 3.6.1p2
openssl (3.4.0) 0.9.7a 0.9.7a
perl (5.40.0) 5.8.5 5.8.0
php (8.4.1) 4.3.9 4.3.2
plasma-desktop (6.2.4)    
postfix (3.9.1) 2.2.10 2.0.16
postgresql (17.2) 7.4.17 7.3.8
Python (3.13.1) 2.3.4 2.2.3
qt (6.8.1) 3.3.3 3.1.2
samba (4.21.2) 3.0.10 3.0.9
systemd (257) -- --
thunderbird (133.0) 1.5.0.12 --
vim (9.1) 6.3 6.3
vlc (3.0.21) -- --
wayland (1.23.1)    
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- --
xorg-server (21.1.14) 6.8.1 --

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