[ale] Distributions

Michael Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Sep 9 10:00:27 EDT 2002


On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 09:16, Fulton Green wrote:
> Actually, Red Hat has what's roughly the RPM equivalent of a CVS "tip", a
> distro called Raw Hide. It's pretty bleeding edge for Red Hat (though you
> won't find a whole lot of packages of beta-stage stuff unless the package
> contents are really close to release-stage).
> 
> ftp://ftp.RedHat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ and a mirror at iBiblio.org .
> 
> There's supposedly a Mandrake counterpart called "the Cooker" (thanks to
> Michael Hirsch for that tip).

Thanks for the credit, though I think anyone who gets the mandrake
newsletter could have toldd you about it.  :-)

I think that is becoming standard--at least for the more open
distributions.  Debian, RedHat, Mandrake,...  Does SuSE have a beta
release? They should, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.  SuSE does
not have as good a reputation for openness as those 3.

--Michael

> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:10:10PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > If some one wants bleeding edge on everything, they need to look
> > somewhere other than RedHat. Well, except for that little "first distro
> > to the new glibc", and "gcc-2.96". That pushed the envelope a bit too
> > much and irritated the people who pay for the shiny CD's.
> 
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