On 13 Mar 2003 08:01:29 -0500, you wrote: >While the details are somewhat blurry at the moment, I think that there >is enough info on the site to give a fairly clear picture of RHEL WS, >and the RHEL *S 2.1 product family. > >We know that RHEL AS (formerly known as RHAS) shares many user land >packages with RHL7.2. And we know that Red Hat's web site says RHEL WS >is "fully compatible" compatible with RHEL AS, and that it contains >XFree86 4.1, GNOME 1.4, and certain kernel drivers. Additionally we >know that RHAS contains minor bug fixes to the RHL7.2 distro that never >got released as errata, plus all the RHL7.2 errata that came out early >one. > >So my guess is that RHEL WS shares the same kernel with the other RHEL >products, which is 2.4.9-e.12, will use the same XFree86 as the other >RHEL products, which is 4.1.0-44, and will use GNOME 1.4 from RHL7.3 >with additional bug fixes.
Which makes the decision to release ES and WS now based on AS very troubling. AS has been out for a year now, which means it is due for a new version sometime in the next 6 months. Yet ES and WS are not due for 12 to 18 months, meaning they will perpetually be about a year behind. Not a good scenario, particularly given that (at least in theory) WS will be used to develop software for AS, yet WS will be behind! >While RHEL WS isn't a cutting edge product, I think that it will meet >then needs of many technical workstation users, the type who have bought >SGI workstations in the past. Lets see, people buy SGI for high end 2D and 3D graphics. You expect them to move to WS given that WS will *not* support the current drivers for the ATI cards? Do you expect these SGI workstation users to suddenly switch over to console applications? Most of the commercial Unix software market is moving to GTK2/Gnome2 at least in part because that is the official new standard for Solaris which means Solaris and Linux can share the same GUI code. Solaris officially supports Gnome2 now, yet a Red Hat product to compete against Solaris doesn't, and Sun isn't known for being cutting edge. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
