Whitebox Linux

[WipeOut]

Mike Chambers wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:15, Phil Schaffner wrote:
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>>and hopefully stability.  Testing here so far looks very good.  There
>>have been a number of reports on the whitebox-devel
>>(http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-devel) and whitebox-users
>>(http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users) lists of good results
>>using Fedora packages either directly or by rebuilds form source.  Some
>>of the basic packages were also adopted from Fedora to satisfy
>>dependencies missing in the RHEL SRPMs and to produce a self-hosting OS
>>-- rebuilds on itself -- unlike RHEL.
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>And what does Whitebox use to get updates?  Some kind of up2date system,
>and if so, like the one in Fedora where you can choose mirrors and local
>dir's or like the old one coming from only one server?
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Apparently from what I have read it is like Fedora in that it uses YUM 
behing the scenes so I am guessing you can use local repositories or 
mirrors..