Why are you using rawhide (Re: Broken deps in rawhide reports; Participate in improving docs)

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Good question. Perhaps people using rawhide can let the list know these 
> details. Quick survey for those interested.
> 
> * Where did you learn about the existance of rawhide from?

Googling RHEL 3.0 issues a couple of years ago and saw the Fedora books 
on the shelf at the bookstore.

> * How did you get started on using it?

Downloaded FC2T1, installed and learned from the series.  Joined the FC 
lists.  Filed a couple of bug reports.  Installed FC3T1 and continued 
on.  Currently have FC2 final with updates to legacy point, FC3 with 
updates, FC4 with updates and Rawhide on a multi-boot system.  The 
Rawhide installation started as FC3T1 and has been updated from 
development since then (some wild times!!). The multiboot system also 
has the other major distros installed.

> * What motivates use to use it?

It is challenging and fun to keep Rawhide up-to-date and to compare its 
features with the other distros (SuSE, Mandriva, Gentoo, Slack, Debian, 
RHEL 4 and a couple other derivatives).

The lists are invaluable for the testing that I try to do.  Also, as 
always, Google is our friend.

> 
> regards
> Rahul
> 


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