[CentOS] CentOS/RHEL 4.x vs 5.x

Thu Sep 3 02:03:38 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I was just curious what the fundamental differences were between the
> 4.x and 5.x branches?

quite extensive. just a few major components...

          c4         c5
kernel   2.6.9      2.6.18
glibc    2.3.4      2.5
gcc      3.4.6      4.1.2
apache   2.0.52     2.2.3
php      4.3.9      5.1.6
mysql    4.1.22     5.0.45
pgsql    7.4.19     8.0.11(?)
python   2.3.4      2.4.3

etc etc etc