On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:36:00PM -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > I got the same impression from their description of the Enterprise Workstation > > distro. > > Which, mine or Ed's? RedHat's. > Checking the RHEL-WS release notes > <http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/notes/ws/>, I see: > References to sendmail and sendmail-cf packages, so you have a mail server. > VNC is there along with X/K/GDM for remote desktop sharing. > NFS exports are surely there, so file serving is possible. I expect > samba too, for interoperability. > Since printconf is there LPRng and or CUPS is there, so it can be a > print server. > > While the MS products sort of do a few of those, like printers and > files, I doubt it would be a choise for those jobs. The linux version > are the same ones we've been using, and so just as appropriate as before. Good points. But why would RH bill it as "workstation only, not a server"? What of MySQL, Apache, etc? I'll have to check... > > Now this is quite true. But then again, you will have to stick with packages > > that match the system of EW and you probably won't be getting any security > > upgrades with those SRPMS... > > Use RHEL-ES packages and updates? Still I would need to see the full > package list to know for sure. But if all the Enterprise updates are by subscription only, how will you get them? -- A billion seconds ago Harry Truman was president. A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth. A billion dollars ago was late yesterday afternoon at the U.S. Treasury.
