rawhide

[Burke, Thomas G.]

I switched to 3.0.3 from Slackware.  I've been doing it from the days when we had to FTP ~75 floppies :)
 
    -Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:28 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: rawhide



On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: 

> 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 :) 

That was true of RHL and RHL betas, and is still true of RHEL.  It was 
never true of Rawhide, which was never part of the standard release cycle. 

And 3.0.3 was my first RHL release too.  Came with my brand-new Pentium 
166 with 32Meg RAM and a 4Gig SCSI Fast Wide disk from one of the earliest 
Linux system vendors.  Even dual-booted the just-released Win95. 

Well-known bit of trivia: Young Clint Eastwood had a lead role in the 
Rawhide TV series. 

> 
> 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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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs 

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