Just browsing Wikipedia to give some ideas about all Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clones (to put ourselves in a context..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedHat_Enterprise_Linux_clones lists the following, comments in [] are mine: * CentOS * Scientific Linux * StartCom Linux [ looks a specialized multimedia distro to me ] * White Box Enterprise Linux [ looks dead, the single developer joined CentOS it seems ] * XOS [ ?? ] * GENtOS [ first time I see this one .. strict RH compatibility does not seem to be a main goal ] * YOUrOS [first time I see this one too, same comment as above ] * GnYOUlinux [ does this really exist ? web site really a copy-cat of above ] * Oracle Unbreakable Linux [ no comments, lame Oracle attempt at Red Hat buy-out or sthg .. ] The following clones have ceased production: * TaoLinux [ effectively merged into CentOS ] ... so if we would join efforts with CentOS .. it could be really profitable to the whole community .. I believe ... Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _