On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 01:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
As the current FAQ maintainer and the one who added that particular
answer to the FAQ, let me point out some details for additional context.
...
When Red Hat decided to create the Red Hat Linux Project which later
got
renamed in Fedora Project, Red Hat published this particular answer as a
result of it's experience (and dealing with loses in a retail product)
while creating Red Hat Linux releases roughly twice a year and I copied
it over from
http://fedora.redhat.com pages when I created the FAQs
since I knew that site was going away soon at that time.
A lot of details have changed and Fedora Project of today is a different
beast (or angel if you will). We could certainly reevaluate our
considerations and IMO we should.
It is worth pointing out that you did not have experience from inside of
a rapidly moving distribution trying also to be a retail boxed product,
right? There were very good reasons that model was a PITA and it was
dropped, reasons that haven't changed since then.
- Karsten, glad not to be writing the slimmed down version of the
Installation Guide to fit with the media pack in the retail box
--
Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr.
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