What version should I choose?

What version should I choose?

[Beginner]

Hi,

I have a HP Proliant server and with Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) installed. When I visit the HP 
site to check out drivers and software the offering are for either RH Enterprise 3 or 4. 

Can I assume that drivers created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be suitable for FC 4? 

Is the any correlation between the Enterprise versions and the FC releases? I don't expect any 
drivers or software i get to be "supported" but if I want to use, say the system management 
software to monitor the RAID, should i try the one intended for Enterprise 4?

Thanx.
Dp.

Re: What version should I choose?

[Axl Purushu]

 From experience it should work. Go ahead and try.

Axl.

Beginner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a HP Proliant server and with Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) installed. When I visit the HP 
> site to check out drivers and software the offering are for either RH Enterprise 3 or 4. 
>
> Can I assume that drivers created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be suitable for FC 4? 
>
> Is the any correlation between the Enterprise versions and the FC releases? I don't expect any 
> drivers or software i get to be "supported" but if I want to use, say the system management 
> software to monitor the RAID, should i try the one intended for Enterprise 4?
>
> Thanx.
> Dp.
>
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Re: What version should I choose?

[chuck gelm]

Beginner wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a HP Proliant server and with Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) installed. When I visit the HP 
>site to check out drivers and software the offering are for either RH Enterprise 3 or 4. 
>
>Can I assume that drivers created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be suitable for FC 4? 
>
>Is the any correlation between the Enterprise versions and the FC releases? I don't expect any 
>drivers or software i get to be "supported" but if I want to use, say the system management 
>software to monitor the RAID, should i try the one intended for Enterprise 4?
>
>Thanx.
>Dp.
>
>  
>

Hi, Dp.:

 I would lean toward comparing kernel versions rather than distribution 
versions.

Chuck

Re: What version should I choose?

[Carl]

At 17:40 22/06/2006, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a HP Proliant server and with Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) 
>installed. When I visit the HP
>site to check out drivers and software the offering are for either 
>RH Enterprise 3 or 4.
>
>Can I assume that drivers created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 
>will be suitable for FC 4?
>
>Is the any correlation between the Enterprise versions and the FC 
>releases? I don't expect any
>drivers or software i get to be "supported" but if I want to use, 
>say the system management
>software to monitor the RAID, should i try the one intended for Enterprise 4?
>
>Thanx.
>Dp.


AFAIK there is no correlation between Fed 4 and RHEL4 at all. Just 
look at the kernels they use.
Fed 4 uses 2.6.11 and RHEL4 uses 2.6.9. And Fedora 4 uses v4.0 gcc 
and RHEL4 uses v3.22.
RHEL releases started way before Fedora.

If you get source versions of the software then give it a go.

Distros like CentOS might be worth looking at if you want a clone of 
RHEL4 with continued updates
of drivers etc...

Carl