[lug] CentOS vs RHEL

Kenneth D Weinert kenw at quarter-flash.com
Thu Apr 16 05:33:48 MDT 2009


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Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
>> Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
>>> Can someone point me to a correlation chart/table between RHEL and
>>> CentOS releases so I can be sure I get the right one?
>> CentOS 3 is the similar version to RHEL 3.  That's the one you want.
>>
> 
> Centos releases track the RHEL releases exactly CentOS/RHEL 3.x, 4.x,
> 5.x. CentOS releases trail RHEL releases by a tad, since they actually
> do some testing. The only thing that doesn't track is the CentOS
> kernels, since they provide options that RHEL does not.
> 
> 

Thanks for the replies - it's sort of what I presumed, but relying on
version numbers for correlation is something not done lightly :)

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