Red Hat Desktop Workstation

Desktop
Designed for task workers. Typically requires a
limited set of applications. End user has limited
administrative control over the system. System administrators need
to be able to pre-configure and remotely manage
consistent images across a large number of systems.
Primary applications in use are productivity applications like
Firefox, Evolution/Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Planner/TaskJuggler. Primary services in use
would be network file systems like SMB/CIFS, NFS,
printing services, IM.
Workstation
Workstations are designed
for advanced Linux users. In addition to the
tools provided in the Desktop variant, the Workstation
variant supports a stand-alone development environment. End users
are expected to have local super-user privileges or
select super-user privileges.