[2] The project aimed to ensure that Fedora fully satisfied the needs of Russian users with many additional features provided out of the box (e.g., specific software packages, preinstalled drivers for popular graphics processors, manuals in Russian).

[3] The main inspiration for this was Fedora 9 being very inconvenient for Russian users with a bug impeding successful installation when the packages were customized.

[4][5] The project's official status was announced at a conference held in the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) on 20 November 2008.

As a result of the adoption of the new compression algorithm (XZ, the new LZMA format) the installation DVD contained more packages compared to previous versions.

[14] Apart from the usual set of changes like added multimedia codecs or additional desktop environments, RFRemix 13 has introduced the following features into Fedora 13 (only notable ones are listed): This 13 December 2013 remix adds applications to the Fedora20 Distributions (32-bit and 64-bit versions).

Proprietary media codecs needed to watch videos or listen to podcasts were included.