On 06/05/2015 09:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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> On Jun 5, 2015 14:25, "ToddAndMargo" <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 06/05/2015 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote:
>  >>
>  >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:57 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 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.