Please test the following release.

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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Scientific Linux  "SL 5.0 Release Candidate 1" on x86_64       April 20, 
2007

See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes.

Items marked with a "**" indicate changes compared to SL5 beta

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ADDED compared to vendor
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**cfitsio
**
**	CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading
**	and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
**	data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.
**
**	cfitsio-3.030-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	cfitsio-devel-3.030-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**


**JAVA
**
**jdk-1.5.0_11-fcs.i586.rpm
**jdk-1.5.0_11-fcs.x86_64.rpm
**
** 	This packages is the java sdk from sun.
** 	It's license is found at misc/licenses/j2sdk-1.4.2-x.license
** 	To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you should
** 	also install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
** 	So the easiest thing to do is
**            yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat
** 	as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.5.0 rpm.
**
**  java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.11-1jpp.noarch.rpm
**
**   	This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
**   	directories for Sun's JDK rpm.

**madwifi - updated
**	madwifi-0.9.3-10.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-0.9.3-10.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-0.9.3-10.sl5.x86_64.rpm


**These perl modules have been added as they are useful.
**
**  	perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-SQL-Statement-1.06-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-TermReadKey-2.20-12.x86_64.rpm
**  	perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.x86_64.rpm
**  	perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-TimeDate-2.22-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-Tk-804.027-1.x86_64.rpm
**


**r1000
**
**    This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek Ethernet 
controllers,
**    which are listed as following.
**          1. RTL8169S/SB/SC (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI interface)
**          2. RTL8168B (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
**          3. RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
**
**    The installer does not automatically install these.
**
**	r1000-1.05-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-1.05-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
**	kernel-module-r1000-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-1.05-1.sl.x86_64.rpm

**SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-6.noarch.rpm
**
**  	This script makes all the changes necessary to send
**  	console output to both the serial port and the screen.  This
**  	also creates a login prompt on the serial port and allows users
**  	to login at this prompt.

**   	gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm		from Stephan Wiesand
**

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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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**		anaconda-11.1.2.36-1.sl.1.x86_64.rpm
**		anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.36-1.sl.1.x86_64.rpm

**	redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.5.noarch.rpm

**	sl-release-5.0-4.x86_64.rpm
** 	sl-release-notes-5.0-4.noarch.rpm

**  	yum-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the latest
**  	stable release.  It is always pointing at the 5x area.  This means
**  	that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgraded to
**  	them.
**
** 		yum-conf-50-1.SL.noarch.rpm
**		yum-conf-5x-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm

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