Re: Red Hat Professional Workstation

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:00:04AM -0400, MJang wrote:
> OK, I remember the discussion of some SOHO Red Hat product coming
> soon, and I'm just reading the release discussion on Red Hat
> Professional Workstation - http://www.redhat.com/software/workstation/
> 
> The links from this page all go towards RHEL info, which suggests that
> it's an offshoot of RHEL WS.

Correct.  

> According to Linux Central - it's to ship Nov 10, 2003 - and is
> "version 10".

Incorrect.  It's not in any way related to RHL - it's got an enterprise
core with non-enterprise support.

It's my understanding that you will never see a boxed set based on
Fedora - that's a money-losing proposition given the short life cycles
of Fedora.

> Has there been a beta of Red Hat Professional Workstation? Is it more
> closely related to Fedora or RHEL? Is it the "affordable" version of
> RHEL that we've all been waiting for on the Taroon list?

Taroon is effectively the beta.  BUY.COM shows a release date of
10/26/2003 but I have not heard a releate date from Red Hat yet.  They
show a price of $82.57 which is down from the $100.99 they were charging
earlier this week.  The product includes one year or RHN support.  Given
that this is worth $60 by itself, that makes the product $23.  If that's
not affordable, then Fedora might be right for you (free with free
support).

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=20359120&loc=105&sp=1

Office Depot has it at $92.95.

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