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[James P. Kinney III]

Thanks Fulton. I forgot to mention rawhide and cooker. I have used stuff
from rawhide before. It is mostly a testing ground for the next release.
The stuff in it is (mostly) stable.

I have also learned the hard way that (trying) to use RPMs from Mandrake
on a RedHat system is a Bad Thing (tm). Even the src.rpm's don't work
well. That's when I get all Slack and grab a tarball!

I have a PaRisk C160 workstation with PaLinux on it from Debian 3.0. The
initial install was better than the first Debian installation I did
several years ago. I can't imagine doing an apt-get upgrade over a
dialup line! I have a solid DSL line and to upgrade from the minimal
PaLinux 0.9.1 installation still over 2 hours. Mmmm! 64 bit processor!

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).
> 
> 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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