How is WhiteBox Linux updated?
Obviously RHN isn’t available as an option, so yum has been brought in from Fedora along with a version of up2date that can work with yum. So pick Up2Date Network from the menu and it basically “just works”. There are some issues though. There is still an initial panel which refers to rhn, but if you just click past that it doesn’t actually try connecting to rhn. Even with multiple well connected mirrors it doesn’t always work well. It is recommended that if you have several machines to keep in sync that you make a local mirror and edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to point the yum lines at it and comment out the yum-mirror lines. • Why didn’t you build all of the packages for the i686/athlon/etc. Short answer: Because RedHat didn’t. WBEL aims to be 100% binary compatible with RHEL which means no tweaking. Longer answer: Because it isn’t an issue. Like RedHat, WBEL’s packages are built with i686 instruction order optimization but limited to the i386 instruction set. For the bulk of packa
