Troy Dawson wrote:

> Although we are not compatible with Fedora, many of the Fedora 
> packages can be recompiled to work with Scientific Linux if you really 
> need to. Just remember that Fedora Core 1 packages tend to compile ok 
> with Scientific Linux 3.0.x, and Fedora Core 3 packages tend to 
> compile ok with Scientific Linux 4.x.

I have found that, in the absence of a RHEL3
RPM, a RH9 RPM will usually work just fine
with SL3.

It seems like whichever FC release is closest
to RHEL4 should work with SL4.

I realize this isn't a guaranteed compatibility,
but it's something people can check into.

-Miles