rawhide

[Burke, Thomas G.]

Used to be that each redhat release had it's own name.  They were subtly related, if you could figure it out.  Someone in one of the old mailing lists did figure it out & posted it, but I can't remember...  I'll take a quick look & see if I can find anything.  A little history lesson - I've been with RedHat since 3.0.3 :)
 
Here's some links...
http://freshrpms.net/misc/redhat-releases/?explain=on
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10001
http://smoogespace.com/documents/behind_the_names.html

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:26 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: rawhide



On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: 

> That's RH 7.1 I think?  (It's one of the releases, but I can't remember 
> which) 

Rawhide was the nickname for the Red Hat Linux development "release". 
The devel directory contained the latest (not necessarily QA'ed) RPMs for 
RHL, so it was a "rolling release". The name comes from the old TV western 
of the same name, whose theme song had lyrics "Rollin', Rollin', 
Rollin'...Rawhide!" 

These days, it's used as a synonym for the Fedora development tree. 

> 
>    -Tom 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [ mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Nestor Waldyd 
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:43 PM 
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com 
> Subject: rawhide 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi ... 
> 
> What does the term "rawhide" means??? 
> 
> ... 
> 
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman 

Clemson University Math Sciences 
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