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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:52:54 -0500
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Miles,

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> Connie,
> 
> |The RedHat difference between AS and ES is a "marketing" difference.  
> 
> AH.  That's not how it was presented to me.
> 
> |Different support.  Both would work the same as it is the same kernel.
> 
> I was led to believe the kernels were different.
> 
> |Not sure why you think we would be based on ES.  We are based on AS.
> 
> I was also led to believe that AS included
> more, proprietary software.  If that were
> the case, there would be no way to provide
> a full AS clone built from source without
> violating something, somewhere.

I think all the RedHat Enterprise AS, ES, WS have proprietary software.
Note that RedHat puts these items on a "Extras" disk.

We do not include them as expected.

> 
> Thanks for setting things straight.
> 

-Connie Sieh

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