Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 21:06 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> >> I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora 
> >> (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, constantly 
> >> flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum update.
> >
> > This is called rawhide. Please keep your arms and legs inside the
> > vehicle at all times. Fedora is not responsible for any injuries which
> > occur while riding rawhide. Rawhide is not for everyone. Pregnant women,
> > or women who may be pregnant (or that one guy who was pregnant) should
> > consult their physician before riding rawhide. Individuals with any of
> > the following medical conditions should probably not ride rawhide: high
> > blood pressure, ringworm, psoriasis, tetter, elephantitis, amathophobia,
> > or rheumatoid arthritis. Rawhide may eat you, your children, your
> > neighbor, your neighbor's cat, and/or your leftovers from yesterday
> > dinner. Rawhide may date your sister once, then never call her again. If
> > you don't have a sister, it may date your friend's sister, then never
> > call her again. If none of your friends have sisters, it may date the
> > sister of someone you have never met and then never call her again. Yum
> > sessions which last for 3 or more hours while using Rawhide are not
> > normal, please seek bugzilla. Rawhide may conflict with other software
> > repositories. Rawhide is not approved by the FDA to treat any specific
> > condition. Rawhide will not be brought to you by Xerox in 4 parts
> > without commercial interruptions. Rawhide will not show you pictures of
> > Bush blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Chaney, John Ashcroft,
> > and John McCain to eat baklava confiscated from an Iraqi village.
> > Rawhide will not make you more attractive to the opposite sex (try
> > beer). Rawhide will break. Rawhide will make you cry. And it still won't
> > call your sister (or your friend's sister, or some random person's
> > sister).
> 
> LOL!  I think that I saw a warning like that on some of the rides at
> Disney World...
> 
> For those of us old enough to remember, Rawhide also has it's own TV
> show and theme song[1]:
> 
>   Move ‘em on, head ‘em up, head ‘em up, move ‘em out,
>   Move ‘em on, head ‘em out Rawhide!

Of course, that was what inspired the "rolling release" repo name to
begin with, back in the days of Red Hat Linux (4 or 5 or so):

        Rollin', rollin', rollin', ...
        
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series)
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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