Social Engineering of Rawhide

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

On 28.02.2006 15:52, Chris Adams wrote:

>It has been "development" since Fedora Core started.  "Rawhide" is the
>nickname based on the old Red Hat Linux dev tree; I think the only
>reference is in the core/development/README file (which apparently
>nobody reads).
>  
>

nobody is reading the README because it is not displayed via HTTP

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
at least i can not see it.


http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/README


no problem with ftp, but i doubt that the none readers use ftp :-(


$ lftp ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
Verzeichniswechsel OK, cwd=/pub/fedora/linux/core/development
lftp download.fedora.redhat.com:/pub/fedora/linux/core/development> ls
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp          3101 Nov 04  2003 README
drwxrwsr-x    2 ftp      ftp        184320 Feb 28 07:49 SRPMS
drwxr-xr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 i386
drwxrwsr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 ia64
drwxrwsr-x    2 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:28 isos
drwxrwsr-x   10 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 ppc
drwxrwsr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 ppc64
drwxrwsr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 s390
drwxrwsr-x    8 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:49 s390x
drwxrwsr-x    9 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 28 07:50 x86_64



and you can less  it

lftp download.fedora.redhat.com:/pub/fedora/linux/core/development> less 
README

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling........

In an effort to improve communications with the development community,
enable Linux users to test bleeding-edge technology, speed development,
and improve the quality of future Fedora Core releases (as well as to
end world hunger and eliminate human conflict), the Fedora Project will
be releasing development versions of the Fedora Core Operating System
on a regular basis.

Dubbed "Raw Hide", the releases will have version numbers independent of
Fedora Core's version. Raw Hide 1.0 will appear on
download.fedora.redhat.com.

How Raw Hide is a Team Effort

The success of Linux and its rapid adoption by an increasing number of
users for mission-critical applications has resulted in a growing number
of developers. In addition to helping new users discover Linux, this
development community continues to bring new features, tools, and utilities
to Linux. As the Linux development community continues to push the rapid
evolution of Linux, infrequently released Linux distributions have a 
difficult
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