Re: Relationship between RHEL and Fedora

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Ken,

That's true. Scientific's 6.0 beat CentOS 6.0 by three months or more.
CentOS has long since caught up. Unless you have a good reason to pay
for Red Hat's subscription maintenance support, use CentOS or SciLinux.
Except for the trademarked logos and other artwork, they're exactly the
same. And if particle physics is your game, SciLinux would be your best
choice. Those folks at Fermi Labs don't fool around :-)

To answer your original question, there is a fairly definite time
relationship between Fedora and RHEL. Fedora aims for 6-month release
cycles, and RHEL tries for 3 years between major releases. Almost every
new feature in RHEL was introduced, beta tested, and thoroughly shaken
down in Fedora first. RHEL5 was forked from Fedora 6, and RHEL6 from
Fedora 12 (sorta).

I don't think RHEL7 will branch from Fedora 18 (now in beta) because
F18's brand new anaconda graphical installer needs a LOT more
development and polishing before it's ready for the commercial market.

--Doc Savage

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 20:23 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> +1 for Scientific Linux. They have a paid staff of developers and
> don't tend to tell their users to shut up and wait when a new release
> is expected. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 3, 2012, at 20:05, Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Scientific linux works as well, both are recompiled RHEL more or
> > less
> > 
> > On Dec 3, 2012 7:58 PM, "Steven Pritchard" <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> >         On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:46:24PM -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> >         > My question is, do we need to just buy RHEL 5.8 and build
> >         it like we always
> >         > do it. Or, is there a version of Fedora that lines up with
> >         RHEL 5.8 in
> >         > terms of gcc and library versions? Does Fedora and RHEL
> >         use the same or
> >         > similar package repositories?
> >         
> >         Build for CentOS 5.8, and it will install and run fine on
> >         RHEL 5.8.
> >         
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