The Scientific Linux developers are pleased to announce our "Very Alpha 
Release" of Scientific Linux 5.0

This is not for production use.
This release will change *dramatically* before the final release.
You have been warned.

Below are the changes from The Upstream Vendor Beta 2 release

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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ADDED compared to vendor
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nedit
     NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System and Motif.

	nedit-5.5-10.i386.rpm


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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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	yum-3.0-5.5.SL.noarch.rpm
	yum-conf-50-0.2.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm
	gdm-2.16.0-19.SL.1.i386.rpm

There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release.  We have 
changed the "rpms" that are required to be changed.  These changes are 
defined by the "vendor".

	redhat-logos-4.9.8-1.SL.3.noarch.rpm
	redhat-artwork-5.0.5-21.SL.1.i386.rpm
	sl-release-5.0-1.i386.rpm
	sl-release-notes-5.0-2.i386.rpm

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/Client /Server /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage
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TUVv5b2 consists of 2 cd sets,  Server and Client.  Each cd set has a 
group of directories which contain the actual rpms.  On the Client cd 
this consists of Client,Workstation and VT.  On the Server cd this 
consists of Server,VT, Cluster, ClusterStorage.  The VT directory 
contains the same rpms on each cd.
The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any 
common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms 
along with many unique rpms.  I have combined the 2 cd sets into 1 big 
tree.  If a rpm is in multiple directories I have made it via a hard 
link to save disk space

We are not sure if we will keep this big tree of directories or not.  It 
has the advantage as having the same tree structure as RHELv5b2.

To install the rpms in /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage you
need to enter V for VT and W for Workstation and C for Cluster and S for
ClustorStorage at the "key" prompt in the installer.  This is code from
TUVv5b2.  It will be changed in our next beta.
So to install all of these you would put in

  VWCS

at the "keys" prompt

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   /SRPMS/
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At the moment, TUV SRPM's are still on the TUV's publically available 
ftp server.  When we get them up, they will be at

scientific/5rolling/SRPMS/vendor/original

Our modified SRPMS are at

scientific/5rolling/SRPMS/

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There were some RPMS that did not build yet.  For those packages we have 
used the publically available packages from TUV.  The largest of these 
is openoffice.  There are about 7 other smaller packages where we have 
done this as well.
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Fermilab  ComputingDivision/CSS  CSI Group
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