which fedora cores are compatible with RHEL4?

[entropy_allan]

Hi,

I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5). I see the rpm's in a lot of repositories are compiled for Fedora core and am wondering which cores are compatible, i.e will rpm's compiled for Fedora core 8 (etc.) work without problems?

Thanks

[multescugeorge@]

i'd say rpm's for fedora 5 work with no problems, faily good chance for rpm's for fedora 6 to also work fine, risky with newer fedoras (7, 8).
RHEL release is usually 1 lower than fedora, so release 4 = fedora 5, safe way to know actual RHEL "age" is to look at gnome, kde and kernel versions and compare them with fedora versions.

[entropy_allan]

Thanks. based on the kernal and those packages as reported by http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora and http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat it looks like RHEL4 matches best with Fedora Core 3.

I don't know how far I can safely push that.

Thanks again.

[Janl]

That's probably about right. RHEL 5 is about the same as FC 6.