On 06/05/2015 09:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Jun 5, 2015 14:25, "ToddAndMargo" <toddandma...@zoho.com <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: > > On 06/05/2015 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The only exception is that if it is supported by the Fedora >>> project. RHEL and clones are variations of Fedora. SL6 >>> is essentially Fedora Core 13 and SL7 is essentially >>> Fedora Core 21. >> >> >> I doubt that the RHEL developers would like the "essentially." > > > Chuckle! > > >> >> But they'd love to know that they have a time machine given that F21 >> was released on December 9th and RHEL7 was released on June 10th. :) >> > > Chuckle! 7.x not 7.0. > > Red Hat uses Fedora as their proving/testing ground, then wraps it > up into RHEL. > RHEL 7 is based off of fedora 19 with only few items back ported. RHEL 20 and 21 might only have a few items moved over to 7.1 but the majority of things from kernel and GCC and glibc are from 18 and 19. Rhel 6 is based off of fedora 12 and rhel 5 is based off of fedora 6 > -T
This is why I used the "weasel" word "essentially". :-) A lot of FC22's RPM will work in SL 7.
