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Re: Scientific Linux vs RHE AS, ES, WS
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George Casper <[log in to unmask]>
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George Casper <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:23:38 -0400
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	Thanks, Connie!  I've found a page on the site which tells me
what packages have been added to SL 3.0.1 - is there a similar listing
of what's been removed?   

-----Original Message-----
From: csieh [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:17 AM
To: Troy Dawson
Cc: George Casper; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Scientific Linux vs RHE AS, ES, WS

George,

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi George,
> Although the question has been asked before, it hasn't been on this
list.
> 
> The short answer is RHEL AS is the superset, meaning it has all the 
> rpm's of the RHEL 3 distribution.  ES is the same as AS except for a 
> different service level.  All of the others (WS and Desktop) are just 
> subset's of AS.  They do not have the 'server' rpm's in them, but
other than that they are the same.
> 
> Scientific Linux (SL) was recomplied from the Source RPM's that are 
> found in RHEL AS, and as a result, have all the rpm's that are found 
> in RHEL AS.  So if you are planning on doing a comparison you would 
> compare Scientific Linux with RHEL AS or ES.
> 

Note that AS comes with some programs that are NOT freely available and
thus do not come with Scientific Linux.

-Connie Sieh
> Troy
> 
> George Casper wrote:
> >       I apologize if this has been asked before, but are the 
> > distributions of RHE (AS, ES, WS and Desktop) compiled from the same

> > code, and just different sets of binaries?  Or, more to the point, 
> > do I get RHE's AS, ES, WS or Desktop functionality out of Scientific
Linux?
> >       I'm hoping to use SL on a test machine to duplicate the 
> > functionality in RHE's AS product.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > George M. Casper
> > Infrastructure Solutions Specialist
> > 100 Lindenwood Drive, Suite 100
> > Malvern, PA 19355
> > [p] 610.232.2846
> > [c] 610.574.2309
> > [web] http://infrastructure.akcelerant.com/
> 
> --
> __________________________________________________
> Troy Dawson  [log in to unmask]  (630)840-6468 Fermilab  
> ComputingDivision/CSS  CSI Group 
> __________________________________________________
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