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What was 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.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2006-03-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 4.0.1 |
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The developers of StartCom Enterprise Linux, a distribution created by rebuilding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source RPMs, have released an update version 4.0.1: "The second update of the latest StartCom Enterprise Linux version AS-4.0.1 is hitting the download mirrors today! With almost 500 updated packages, this release includes many security updates and bug fixes, but also a few additions, such as smart card support from the OpenSC project. Additional features are the inclusion of pcsc-lite, openct and opensc of the OpenSC and M.U.S.C.L.E project in order to provide better support of smart cards and secure tokens on our enterprise systems." The release announcement. CD and DVD images for the i386 and x86_64 architectures are available for download from a number of international mirrors; a quick link to the i386 DVD: Barak-i386-u2-DVD.iso (2,016MB).
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| StartCom Enterprise Linux, which is based on the Red Hat AS source code, is the ultimate solution for middle-size servers to large data centres. The current version supports the largest commodity-architecture servers with up to 16 CPUs and 64GB (on x86 systems) of main memory, Global File System - for highly scalable, high performance data sharing in multi-system configurations. Included in this distribution is a comprehensive collection of open source server applications like mail, file (SMB/NFS), DNS, web, FTP, and a complete desktop environment.
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| 2009-02-03 |
Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.3 |
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Eddy Nigg has announced the release of StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.3, a distribution built from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3: "With the availability of StartCom Enterprise Linux AS 5.0.3, OpenJDK Java technologies have arrived at this open source, enterprise-grade platform. This updated release provides increased scalability of virtualized x86_64 environments, support for the new Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) processors and the inclusion of the OpenJDK Java implementation. OpenJDK is a high-performance, fully open source implementation of the widely adopted Java SE 6. Other added kernel features include the software-based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) driver and along with libfc provides the ability to run FCoE over a standard Ethernet card." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (MD5): Kishuf-i386-u3-DVD.iso (3,902MB), Kishuf-x86_64-u3-DVD.iso (4,335MB).
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| 2008-06-11 |
Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2 |
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Eddy Nigg has announced the release of StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2, an updated version of the distribution built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2: "StartCom is pleased to announce the availability of StartCom Enterprise Linux AS 5.0.2. This update release provides various enhancements for virtualization, encryption, cluster storage, but also desktop improvements. The Xen hypervisor makes the running of multiple virtualized server instances with its performance improvements and live-migration support for fully virtualized guests more efficient and reliable. Added kernel features include new asynchronous kernel crypto hardware driver APIs which were backported from the upstream kernel. Also new is the OpenSwan package which supports IKE 2 for IPv6. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.2 is available for Intel i386 and AMD x86_64 architectures." Read the full press release for more details. Download (MD5): Kishuf-i386-u2-DVD.iso (3,740MB), Kishuf-x86_64-u2-DVD.iso (4,200MB).
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| 2008-01-15 |
Development Release: StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.7 RC1 |
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Eddy Nigg has announced the first release candidate for StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.7: "We are glad to announce a first release candidate of version 5.0.7 of the StartCom MultiMedia Edition codenamed 'Kessem'. This test release introduces a new low-latency 2.6.23 kernel in addition to many, many updated packages and version upgrades. We invite anybody interested to install this test release and help us find eventual problems in this distribution. What's New? This OS is now much more compatible and in par with the StartCom AS-5 series (aka RHEL 5) as far as the basic underlying system and desktop packages is concerned. This includes a switch from Xgl to AIGLX for Compiz, but Firefox and Thunderbird have been updated to more recent 2.0.0.10 and 2.0.0.5 releases. The desktop is polished and boosts a huge sound and video section." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: Kessem-i386-DVD-rc1.iso (3,830MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-25 |
Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 4.0.5 |
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StartCom has release an updated set of DVD images of StartCom Enterprise Linux 4, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "StartCom is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the updated release for the legacy AS-4.0.x series of StartCom Enterprise Linux. The sixth update release provides additionally supported and updated drivers, an updated kernel with new features (version 2.6.9-67), updated Samba (SMB file sharing), mirrored root support for Logical Volume Management (LVM) and updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). AS-4.0.5 supports the Xen hypervisor which allows for the running of multiple virtualized server instances on the hardware." Read the press release for further details. Download (MD5): Barak-i386-u6-DVD.iso (2,130MB), Barak-x86_64-u6-DVD.iso (2,442MB).
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| 2007-11-12 |
Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.1 |
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StartCom Ltd has announced the release of StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.1, a distribution rebuilt from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and enhanced with additional software: "StartCom is pleased to announce the availability of StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.1. StartCom Linux is using the latest in open source technology and with its known stability, reliability and security allows for mission-critical server deployments. This update release provides improved support for virtualization - the running of multiple instances of operating systems on one physical hardware unit. The Global File System (GFS) provided in AS-5.0.1 allows the building and maintaining of high availability computer clusters, mainly used for data centers." Read the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): Kishuf-i386-u1-DVD.iso (3,591MB), Kishuf-x86_64-u1-DVD.iso (4,244MB).
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| 2007-10-31 |
Distribution Release: StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6 |
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StartCom Ltd. has announced the final release of StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6: "StartCom MultiMedia Edition is most famous for its audio and video manipulation capabilities, but also for the wide range of the delivered applications. Today an updated version of this superb operating systems has been released. The enhanced usability of the desktop applications, in addition to various audio and video players, makes the StartCom MultiMedia Edition an excellent choice for the home desktop computer. A new design and the advanced 3D OpenGL driven effects offer some real computing fun, while a TV, video and file streaming server and client make sharing of music and video throughout the local network a snap. More outstanding applications like Cinelerra, Rosegarden, Audacity and many, many sound manipulating effect tools, synthesizers, samplers, sequencers round the picture." Here is the full press release. Download (MD5): Kessem-i386-DVD.iso (3,531MB), Kessem-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,132MB).
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| 2007-10-17 |
Development Release: StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6 RC2 |
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Eddy Nigg has announced the second release candidate of StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6: "StartCom MultiMedia Edition ML-5.0.6 (Kessem) Update RC2 released. After the first release candidate of ML-5.0.6 which was released last week, we are glad to publish this second release candidate. What's New? This time we published ML-5.0.6 also for the x86_64 architecture. The historical Mozilla browser packages were dropped for good and GAIM was replaced with Pidgin. Some disturbing file conflicts when installing in languages other than English are fixed with this release. A few other improvements and some polishing were also done and the StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5 looks better than ever." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): Kessem-i386-DVD-rc2.iso (3,531MB), Kessem-x86_64-DVD-rc2.iso (4,147MB).
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| 2007-10-08 |
Development Release: StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6 RC1 |
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Eddy Nigg has announced the first release candidate of StartCom MultiMedia Edition 5.0.6, a Linux distribution featuring a comprehensive collection of audio and video applications: "We are pleased to announce the release candidate of version 5.0.6 of StartCom MultiMedia Edition, code-named 'Kessem'. This is the first update of the ML-5 series which introduces a few changes and additions compared to the previous release. We invite anybody interested to install this test release and help us find eventual problems in this distribution prior to its official release. What's New? Included are the newest packages of OpenOffice.org version 2.3. We added VideoLAN and its VLC media player. Also new for ML-5 is the inclusion of the latest CompizFusion packages which allow for the cool OpenGL-driven 3D desktop effects." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: Kessem-i386-DVD-rc1.iso (3,567MB, MD5).
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| 2007-04-02 |
Distribution Release: StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.0 |
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StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.0, the first distribution built by recompiling the source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, has been released: "The newest StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0 joins a series of successful and reliable operating systems build and distributed over the last three years by StartCom Ltd. This latest release provides full support for virtualization - the running of multiple instances of operating systems on one physical hardware unit. And depending on the installation preferences, AS-5.0.0 can function as server platform as well as advanced client workstation. StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0, code-named 'Kishuf', is available for Intel i386 and AMD x86_64 architectures." Read the full press release for more information. Download (MD5): Kishuf-i386-DVD.iso (3,648MB), Kishuf-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,297MB).
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