Boxed version of Fedora

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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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