No, you could not. Afaik Ubuntu releases don't correlate that much with Debian releases. CentOS on the other hand is always binary compatible and basically jus

No, you could not. Afaik Ubuntu releases don't correlate that much with Debian releases. CentOS on the other hand is always binary compatible and basically just a re-branding of RHEL without the commercial support. So, apart from the commercial side CentOS and RHEL are pretty much exactly the same. I don't beliebe this is true for Debian and Ubuntu. As far as i know, it's like that: Fedora is the bleeding-edge Desktop RedHat version that gets the latest stuff. At some time it's forked, fixed and baked into a RHEL release. When this is released it's taken by the community, recompiled/branded (with the exact same sources) and released as CentOS.