What is rawhide anyway? 

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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

Install Redhat Rawhide?? 

Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
Date: 2000/06/01
> > I have looked everywhere for the ISO file for rawhide but found none
> > so I downloaded the entire directory of rawhide. I have burnt the cdrom
> I don't believe that Red Hat makes rawhide iso files. Many people have
 reported problems with the installer. Basically, there is no guaruntee that
 any of the packages will work.

Rawhide is just that, raw cutting edge bullwhipped head-'em-up move-'em-out rpm's that may/maynot work, so I'd treat /rawhide with a certain amount of "Fear and Loathing". Good stuff is in there, though. Real gems can be found.

Ric "Wayward" Moore