Matching Fedora Core to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
If you are using Fedora Core for development and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for deployment, it makes sense to match compiler and libc versions as much as possible.
The following table shows compiler and libc version ranges for various releases of Fedora Core (FC) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL):
Date Release gcc range glibc range python range kernel range
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2003-10 RHEL3 3.2.3 2.2
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2003-11 FC1 3.3.2 2.3.2
2004-05 FC2 3.3.3 2.3.2
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2005-02 RHEL4 3.4.3 2.3.2
2004-11 FC3 3.4.2 - 3.4.4 2.3.3 - 2.3.6 2.3.4 2.6.9 - 2.6.12
2006-03 RHEL4u3 3.4.5 2.3.4 2.6.9
2006-08 RHEL4u4 3.4.6 2.3.4
2006-05 RHEL4u5 3.4.6 2.3.4 2.3.4 2.6.9
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2005-06 FC4 4.0.2 2.3.5 2.4.3 2.6.17
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2006-03 FC5 4.1.0 2.4 2.4.3
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2007-03 RHEL5 4.1.1 2.5 2.6.18
CentOS5 4.1.1 2.5 2.4.3 2.6.18
2006-10 FC6 4.1.1 - 4.1.2 2.5 2.4.3 2.6.18 - 2.6.22
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2007-05 FC7 4.1.2 2.6
2007-11 FC8 4.1.2 2.7 2.5.1 2.6.23
2008-11 FC10 4.3.2 2.9 2.5.2 2.6.27.5
FC11 4.4.0 2.10.1 2.6 2.6.29