Boxed version of Fedora

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> 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.
>
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>
> 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.
>
> Rahul
>


This is very interesting indeed, and I was chatting about this very 
issue with a friend not so long ago. We both have been Red Hat users 
since a long time (me from RHL 5.0 and he from 6.0). While indeed a 
retail model wouldn't completely suit Fedora, especially when there is a 
Fedora release every 6 months, what we thought could be a possible 
solution was to retail Fedora every other release. Usually the Spring 
release is an odd number release (like forth coming 9), and Fall 
releases are even numbers (for instance, last November's Fedora 8), so 
why not focus either of these releases as the retail release? That would 
mean that a new retail version would be out every ~12 months instead of 
every 6 months, avoiding the management nightmare that a semestral 
release would be.