"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote: >> I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora >> (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, constantly >> flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum update. > > This is called rawhide. Please keep your arms and legs inside the > vehicle at all times. Fedora is not responsible for any injuries which > occur while riding rawhide. Rawhide is not for everyone. Pregnant women, > or women who may be pregnant (or that one guy who was pregnant) should > consult their physician before riding rawhide. Individuals with any of > the following medical conditions should probably not ride rawhide: high > blood pressure, ringworm, psoriasis, tetter, elephantitis, amathophobia, > or rheumatoid arthritis. Rawhide may eat you, your children, your > neighbor, your neighbor's cat, and/or your leftovers from yesterday > dinner. Rawhide may date your sister once, then never call her again. If > you don't have a sister, it may date your friend's sister, then never > call her again. If none of your friends have sisters, it may date the > sister of someone you have never met and then never call her again. Yum > sessions which last for 3 or more hours while using Rawhide are not > normal, please seek bugzilla. Rawhide may conflict with other software > repositories. Rawhide is not approved by the FDA to treat any specific > condition. Rawhide will not be brought to you by Xerox in 4 parts > without commercial interruptions. Rawhide will not show you pictures of > Bush blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Chaney, John Ashcroft, > and John McCain to eat baklava confiscated from an Iraqi village. > Rawhide will not make you more attractive to the opposite sex (try > beer). Rawhide will break. Rawhide will make you cry. And it still won't > call your sister (or your friend's sister, or some random person's > sister). LOL! I think that I saw a warning like that on some of the rides at Disney World... For those of us old enough to remember, Rawhide also has it's own TV show and theme song[1]: Move ‘em on, head ‘em up, head ‘em up, move ‘em out, Move ‘em on, head ‘em out Rawhide! Regards, Marc Schwartz 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
