[ltp] Latest Fedora Release Name?

Matt Sheffield linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 9 Nov 2003 18:00:09 -0500


I just tried Yarrow today and it still looks quite rough. I had a number of 
apps crash on me and my trackpoint had to be manually configured. Guess I'll 
keep with FreeBSD and Debian for now.

I do like the windecos and icons, though, enough to copy them over to my 
Debian side. ;-)

On Sunday, November 09, 2003 3:34 pm, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, James McKenzie wrote:
> > Greg:
> >
> > Definately, but it looks like there are several releases of Fedora out
> > there, unlike previous releases.  I was trying to download Severn, but
> > was informed that this is not the latest, or gold release.
>
> You should use 'Yarrow' - which is 'Fedora Core 1'. The others are
> beta releases. This is not unique to fedora. The older RedhatLinux
> product also went through similar beta releases.
>
>
> yarrow -> Release 'Fedora Core 1'
> severn -> beta for fedora core 1 ( there were beta1, test 2, test 3)
>
> shrike -> RHL9
> phoebe -> beta before RHL 9
>
> etc..
> Satish