George,
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, George Casper wrote:
> 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?
The release notes specify what has been added and removed. We do not
specify anything about the non freely available products. You need to
look at the RedHat site for what they add.
-connie sieh
>
> -----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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