Fedora Core 5, 'Bordeaux', has been released to mirrors. The release notes [.html download] are posted, along with sets of screenshots of the installation procedure and the resulting desktop, by Linux-Noob, so boys and girls, rejoice. The main new features of Fedora Core 5 are the latest GNOME and KDE desktops (2.14 and 3.5 respectively), integration of early work on the Fedora Rendering Project, Mono installed by default, new pakage manager front-ends, better sleep/hibernate support, and much, much more. Update: Screencast and screenshots.
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ziggamon said "To Thoms defence: it is in deed downloadable from an official mirror. However it is bad journalism to say something is "released" and then link to some forum called linux-n00b where some n00b (not just an insult, it's actually true this time) found a mirror that had the release out. "
hey, i'm PROUD of being a linux noob, and proud to use linux and particularly Fedora, for the last few releases of Fedora Core, the iso's have been on some of the official mirrors a day or days before the official announcment, whether that's an error on those mirrors or not is not of my concern (quite likely the mirror admin didnt chmod the directories properly...).
and as I stated in my Evolution of Fedora Core linux article, http://linux-noob.com/review/fedora/fcrh/
"I won't hesitate for a moment, to say that Fedora Core release linux is my absolute favorite linux distro, I love the way it is developing with the times, I love the consistency with the releases (lots of new stuff!), and I love the way it has matured from the first release. I aim to be first in line to download the ISO's when FCR5 is released next month and I hope that you will join me. Fedora Core linux is maturing faster than my home brew wine ! make sure you don't miss the boat. "
was I first in line ? not quite, but one of the first quite possibly :-) !
cheers
anyweb
Edited 2006-03-20 07:55
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2005-07-06
Nah, you shouldn't have to go that far...
Just join the torrent - where's the harm in that?
To Thoms defence: it is in deed downloadable from an official mirror. However it is bad journalism to say something is "released" and then link to some forum called linux-n00b where some n00b (not just an insult, it's actually true this time) found a mirror that had the release out.
One thing is being first with the news. A totally different thing is to report news before they happened.
What would have been cool is if OSnews carried the story the second FC5 was released! THAT would be being first with bringing the news...