Dare to Dream?

Fedora Core 5, code name “Bordeaux”, was meant to be released on Wednesday the 15th of March, 9 months after its predecessor “Stentz”. A lot of people were waiting for it with great expectations. But 5 days before the official release, an announcement was made, the event was postponed to Monday the 20th. The announcement suggested that Fedora Core 5 would be the first distribution to include the new Gnome 2.14, released on the 15th of March.

Ten days later, there was a lot of excitement and everybody was eagerly awaiting the release. The rumor had it, “Bordeaux” would hit the shelves at 2pm UTC! A Swiss mirror leaked some ISO on the 17th and was quickly overwhelmed by the mass of people trying to download from it. Fedora forums were buzzing. A few minutes before 2pm, some 584 people were viewing this thread and probably constantly refreshing their browsers to be the first to see where to get the ISOs fro,.

Stanton Finley had already published the Fedora Core 5 Linux Installation Notes.

Finally, at 2pm the 5 ISO CDs were available on http://download.fedora.redhat.com. The official website hadn’t been updated yet, but the ISO were there and people were already celebrating the new release.

Later on that day, “Bordeaux” became available on Fedora mirrors, an entry was made in http://www.distrowatch.com, the official repositories became available for Fedora Core 5 and the official website was updated. It even became available at the Livna repositories.

Sandy, this was public news… no need to jump around for this

hahahaha

Check this:

http://spaces.msn.com/baxiabhishek/blog/cns!8A8DB02C6AB8F265!451.entry

I’m sure u wud gimme a beer hug fr this.