Comparison of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop and Workstation versions - Red Hat Customer Portal

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This article shows differences between the versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop and Workstation.

	Red Hat Enterprise Linux Single User Products
	Workstation	Client
Desktop architecture support
x86, 32-bit	RHEL5 and RHEL6	RHEL5 and RHEL6
x86, 64-bit	RHEL5, RHEL6 and RHEL7	RHEL5, RHEL6, and RHEL7
Desktop support limits as defined by Red Hat Enterprise Linux product subscription
Maximum physical CPUs/sockets¹	2	1
Maximum memory	Unlimited	16 GB
Maximum virtualized guests/instances^2,3	1	1
Available with Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset⁴	Yes	No
Included Red Hat Network modules	Update, Management, and Provisioning modules

Notes:

Red Hat defines physical CPUs equivalently to sockets, so a multicore and/or hyperthreading CPU is counted as a single socket when determining which subscription to purchase.
Using the virtualization technology included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
A Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation with up to 4 guests is available.
Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset not available with Self-Support subscriptions.

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