[CLUE-Tech] What's the diff?

[Ski Dawg]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:35, Buttjer, Jon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Just wanting to know if anyone knows the difference between a normal
> Red Hat distro and a "Publishers Edition"?  I am thinking about buying
> a Red Hat 9 Unleashed type book or a Red Hat 9 Bible and they both
> indicate that they come with the publishers edition... so, if anyone
> knows I would appreciate the info.
> 
> Tanks,
> jontheisguy at yahoo.com

Usually the difference is in the number of packages that are included.
Quite often, publishers will scale the distro down to 1 or maybe 2
discs.  The publisher edition will usually not include any source
packages either. It should be enough to get a system up and running.
Sometimes the publishers will list the packages included on the CD. 

The full version of Red Hat 9 (downloaded) comes on 3 discs
(binary/install) and 2 more for the sources.

HTH
--
Doug

Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
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