RedHat Rawhide

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 1999/01/27

> I'm looking at three sources of rpms frm Red Hat: rawhide.redhat.com,
> rhcn.redhat.com, and contrib.redhat.com.
>
> What is rawhide anyway? And what is the difference between rawhide and
> rhcn? There's a lot more packages, more recent ones, in rhcn.

ftp.redhat.com = official, stable distributed packages, by RedHat rawhide = cutting/bleeding edge versions of distributed packages, by RedHat contrib = packages contributed by anyone, unsupported, little (no?) quality control rhcn = packages by registered contributors, unsupported but checked + validated Tom