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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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@xxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nestor Waldyd Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:43 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: rawhide
Hi ...
What does the term "rawhide" means???
...
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
