What RPMs are going to be supported with RHEL and RH Prof WS???

[Rick Stevens]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 16:50, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
>>
>>>I see Red Hat's current "Under the Brim" is giving a sales pitch... 
>>>
>>>Red Hat Professional Workstation: Enterprise Linux gets personal
>>>Want to run an enterprise-quality operating system but don't actually
>>>have an enterprise? Red Hat has the answer Red Hat Professional
>>>Workstation. Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Professional Workstation
>>>provides a complete suite of tools for the power desktop user at an
>>>affordable price. Best of all, it's annually renewable and comes with
>>>one year of Red Hat Network updates and upgrades. 
>>>
>>>Buy today and get a limited edition Red Hat cap.
>>>
>>>Is this still the old version of back then - Date unknown?
>>>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
>>>
>>>
>>>Chris Cz (still learning that there are no answers or...)
>>
>>Red Hat is doing an end-of-life on all Red Hat Linux "free" products
>>as of April, 2004.  Updates will continue for RH9 through August (IIRC).
>>
>>They are only doing Red Hat Enterprise Linux after that and you have to
>>pay for it.  There are three versions:
>>
>>  Red Hat Workstation Pro 3   (RHWP3) is this the same as RHEL-WS?
>>  Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 (RHES3)    ''       ''      RHEL-ES?
>>  Red Hat Advanced Server 3   (RHAS3)    ''       ''      RHEL-AS?
>>
>>RHWP3 is essentially the same as Red Hat Linux 9.x (or 10) would have
>>been.  What was going to be Red Hat Linux 10 is now called Fedora Core
>>1, and it's still free.  You can get it at http://fedora.redhat.com
>>or one of the many mirrors listed there.
> 
> 
> I'm getting mixed up with all this new and recent terminology?
> 
> and with which RHxx3 can I use MySQL or PostgreSQL?
> as I am able to do with RHL9.

The "Enterprise Linux" stuff is the next release of what we used to call
Red Hat Linux.  The differences are that it's newer and you must pay for
updates via a subscription (or "entitlement" as they call it).  It's
supposed to be more "bullet proof" than the other stuff, meaning that
the number of patches are _supposed_ to be fewer.  I'll believe that
when I see it.  Exploits are exploits and are only found after some time
has elapsed.

> And where does Red Hat Prof WS fit in the scheme of things?
> see above from "Under the Brim" and when does it's life cycle end?
> is this the same as   Red Hat Workstation Pro 3 (RHWP3)???

RedHat Professional Workstation (RHPW) is NOT RHWP3.  They're VERY
similar.  The major differences are the level of support offered to
the buyer (RedHat offers limited support to RHPW, much more for RHWP3),
how easily the thing can be upgraded/maintained remotely (RHPW is not
designed to be remotely administered) and that RHPW supports only 2
processors at most.  There are other differences, but those are the
biggies.

Again, if you're used to Red Hat Linux, you're not in a corporate
environment that requires Enterprise Linux and you do your own admin
stuff, go with Fedora.

  has more

> (no version quoted by Red Hat -  see my problem.
>  can't anything for granted these days from Red Hat!!!)
> 
> Chris Cz
> 
> 
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