nameserver ip adress disappearing afer install?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Fri Oct 24 18:25:51 UTC 2003


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> The press (and most people :-) have this habit of second-guessing what
> they hear or read.  That's when 3 becomes 3.0, RHEL ES becomes RHES,
> AS, ES and WS are assumed to be acronyms for whatever the reporter can
> think of, etc.  The name of the product line is Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux version 3 (sometimes shortened to the acronym RHEL 3), and it's
> available in 3 variants: AS, ES, and WS.  These pairs of letters have
> no particular meaning.  They might as well have been AB, CD and EFG.
> 
> If you find any similar mistakes in the press, please let us and/or
> the publisher know about the mistake.  Thanks,

You might start by letting your marketing people know ;-)

Some of Red Hat's white papers describing the product line give meanings to 
the acronyms AS, ES, and WS.

AS == advanced server
ES == entry/mid server
WS == workstation

is in <http://www.redhat.com/whitepapers/rhel/RHEL3FamOverWPPdf.pdf>

later,
chris





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