Re:It's not the same at all (Score 2, Interesting)

That's partially true.

Cooker was from the begining available in real time on Internet (mirrored every hour) with a transparent development scheme (CVS, mailing list, changelog altert) while Rawhide was only available from time to time and with no transparency.

Additionnaly Cooker is useable. There is many people who are using it on their Desktop. This make the strenght of the system.