Howdy,
As Ioannis has already said RHEL 5 was released.

It was released on the birhtday of Albert Einstein, *and*, it was 
released at the time of pi.  3-14 1:59:26  (OK, so I can't verify the 
seconds, let's just pretend they got it)
I think that is a very fitting release to begin to compile and turn into 
Scientific Linux.

So the real work of building Scientific Linux 5 has begun.
Step 1 is to recompile all of the source rpm's from RedHat, on a machine 
running the alpha release of S.L.5.
Step 2 is to reinstall that machine with these new rpm's, and then 
recompile all the source rpm's from RedHat ... again.
This ensures the batter is light and frothy.
Wait, no, it makes sure that the binary rpm's have been compiled with 
the correct libraries.

After step 1 and step 2 are done, we will put all the binaries into a 
distribution and that will be our first beta release.  Then we will 
shake out the bugs, tweek, and fine tune things.

What is the timeframe:
This is just a educated guess.  This is just to answer the question 
before people ask it.  In the words of the upstream vendor, "we will 
release it when it's ready."
First Beta - two weeks, so sometime around March 30
Final Release - anywhere from 1 month to 2 months.  If everything works 
perfect, let's say April 16.  But I'd love to have it out no later than 
May 14.

The Whiteboard:
The whiteboard is sortof a copy of the whiteboard in my office.  I will 
try to keep it updated so you can see what's going on.  It's web 
location is at

https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/rolling.whiteboard

Troy
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