RH & Fedora

[keemo]

Hi,

This might be a very stupid question, but since Fedora is a project of RH, does that mean that if something works on RH it should work on Fedora as well? or would I be wrong?

[sether]

yes, chances are you're right. are you talking about .rpm files for redhat you want to run on fedora?

[keemo]

yes...well, I'm looking to try Fedora, and just getting as much info as possible before I start might even try FC3

[imdeemvp]

some library dependencies my be diferent and app or driver may not work.....

i'll give you a good example: xfce packages for rh9 do work for fc2 and some wireless card that worked on rh9 dont work on fc2

[techieMoe]

I've found that most of the time an RPM made for Redhat 9 works fine with Fedora Core.

[keemo]

being a rh project, you would think that all drivers would work on both, wouldnt you?

its all good though, I guess I'll have to try it out and see for myself.

another question if I download the FC3 iso and get a different check sum (using md5sum) would I have to RE-download the iso?

[rat007]

being a rh project, you would think that all drivers would work on both, wouldnt you?

It seems to me that Fedora is sth like Red Hat Enteprise Linux stable, cos all packages are tested by Red Hat team on Fedora and than after few bugfixes it goes to RHEL.

another question if I download the FC3 iso and get a different check sum (using md5sum) would I have to RE-download the iso?

u'd better do so

[keemo]

Well, I downloaded the ISO's of the first 2 CD'd of FC3 (in the process of downloading 3 & 4)...ran md5sum and got the right values, but when I create the CD's and test media during installation I get a 'fail' result.
I've double checked the md5sum results, and its the right value...

is that a known issue or am I missing something?

[cjl7]

No, that is not a known issue!

Do not use a cd that doesn't check out!

Re-download and burn cd's again (mabe from another site)

//jonas

[keemo]

thats the thing cjl7...the iso's DID check out!