> The SRPMS discs are the source code RPMS. The i386 discs are the ones > used for the install. And yarrow and rawhide and so on and so forth.
Is there a Redhat / Fedora /Linux jargon busting page please? The tla's that are flowing on this list I guess warrant one.
So what's a TLA? ;-)
* RPM = Red Hat Package Manager, the standard way to build and distribute any application for Red Hat Linux or other distributions that now use the same format. This includes Fedora and Mandrake, possibly others of which I might be unaware. RPM is also the name for the application and command with which you install, upgrade, query, or remove an RPM package, and you often refer to a package as "the Apache RPM" meaning the RPM file for that application.
* SRPMS = "Source" RPM, contains the source code for the package in case you want to read it or modify it. You do not need any SRPMS to install or use the software.
* i386 = The entire x86 line of computers and processors, from the Intel 386 forward all the way to Intel Pentium 4 and Athlon chips. All those are compatible with i386 instruction sets, the "lowest common denominator".
* Rawhide = The bleeding edge, Rawhide is where the next version of packages are developed and tested. It is usually sort of stable, but on any given day any given package MIGHT be badly broken where the programmers are trying to add something or change something. Do not use on production machines, use at your own risk, etc.
* Yarrow, Shrike, Psyche, et al. = The names given to individual distributions issued by Red Hat for reference and easy memory. People often forget whether they are using 8.0 (Psyche), 9 (Shrike), or Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow), but the names are harder to forget. Note that other operating systems do the same thing, including other Linux distros and Microsoft (various versions of Windows have been named Chicago, Cairo, etc.).
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
