1. Re: Release Name and Democracy? (Dusty Bradshaw)

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Mike Chambers wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 21:37, d_bradsh at bellsouth.net wrote:
>
>>[...]Dont attack me.
>>    
>>

i hope that redhat will follow his traditional naming-scheme in fedora,
a full story/explanation about the release-names would be nice :-)

>Second, the current releases, even test releases are called Fedora. 
>Didn't know there was a release name besides that?
>

$ ll /etc/redhat-release
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 14 29. Apr 21:20 /etc/redhat-release -> 
fedora-release


$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 1.92 (FC2 Test 3)


a partial overview over the redhat-naming-scheme can you find here

http://freshrpms.net/misc/redhat-releases/index.html?explain=on

<snip> Red Hat Linux release names and possible explanations </snip>



thanks to matthias saou.

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shrek-m