White Box Enterprise Linux on the desktop

White Box Enterprise Linux (WBEL), a free Linux distribution, includes a number of user-friendly features that add up to a useful and functional operating system. Over the years, my Linux installs have progressed from Debian 2.0 to SUSE 6.3 to SUSE 8.0 to Red Hat 9, and finally to WBEL 3.0, and I'm extremely pleased with my latest setup.

I work in the high-tech manufacturing industry and have been using Linux for about seven years. I use a Dell Latitude 800 laptop at home, where I've been Windows-free for more than four years.