Fedora / RHE compatibility

Giuseppe Sarno gsarno at nortel.com
Tue Jul 8 22:47:45 UTC 2008


Ok thanks,
I understand, so if I assume if wanted compatibility with RHE 4 update 6
I can pick up CentOS 4.6 and so on.

Thanks.
Giuseppe.  

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Searle
Sent: 08 July 2008 22:02
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Fedora / RHE compatibility

Around 09:55pm on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 (UK time), Giuseppe Sarno
scrawled:

> Not quite sure what is the free in beer or free in speech :-)

free as in beer means it costs nothing.

free as in speech means you can copy it, change it, re-distribute it
(i.e. open source)

> But is this CentoOS compatible with RHE ?

Yes.

> For example what if I had binaries on compiled on RHE would they work 
> on CentOS?

Yes.  It aims to be 100% binary comaptible with RHE.

Steve

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