Hi,

I am soliciting opinions for which RHEL clone you think is the best. I am looking at a few:

CentOS
cAos
Tao Linux
White Box

I've got my hands on RHEL 4 for training purposes (i have no subscription to Redhat Network of course) but am interested in taking a look at the clones. I have never played around with any of them, so I'd be interested in seeing what you guys think.

thanks,

Harlin

i'm a big centos fan personally, does exactly what it says on redhat's tin...

Again, I think they are all quite good. I have 3 whitebox servers and they run great.
Good luck
Smurff

I'd go for CentOS, followed closely by Whitebox. TAO is ok, but releases upgrades to its distro much slower than the other two.

So far, I've given Tao a serious look but haven't really liked what I've seen. So, I went back to using Fedora for the moment.

BTW, I am going through a really great book on RHCE (by Michael Jang). It has a lot of great exercises that allows one to get hands-on with Redhat.

Man, I am really impressed with RHCE because it tests you on what you can do and what you know as opposed to how good you are at taking a multiple choice test and knowing computer trivia. Normally I completely disdain certs (I've told many an interviewer that my one, only and last certification is A+ -- I really don't believe in them) but I must say I am impressed with the RHCE. It is quite steep ($750 from what I've seen) but I think it could be about the only one out there that proves anything.

Ack, but I digress... Next, I'll take a gander at CentOS. If any of you are studying up on RHCE, I still think Fedora is a great cheap solution -- there's hardly any difference between it and RHEL (in fact the only thing I've found that was missing is the deprecated raidtools -- it has adadm instead). Thanks for the advice. Also, if anyone has taken RHCE, I'd like to hear about your experience with it.

Thanks,
Harlin