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/
>
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