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. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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