The first alpha release for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been released.
This release has all the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors
Update 3.
It will install, and it appears to work, but no major testing has been
done.

You can only do a network install.  We do not have CD or DVD images.

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DOWNLOAD INFO
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          ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
          ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64

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CHANGES by Scientific Linux
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**JAVA
**	Updated to Java 1.6.0
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**      java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.10-3.sl5.jpp.i586.rpm
**      jdk-1.6.0_10-fcs.i586.rpm

**XFS
**	xfs rpm changed to xfs-filesystem
**	patch to get it to compile on new kernel
**
**      xfs-filesystem-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
**      kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.el5-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
**      kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.el5PAE-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm
**      kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.el5xen-0.4-2.sl5.i686.rpm

**Installer(anaconda)
**	Changed that were in SL 5.2 put into anacone
**
**      anaconda-11.1.2.168-1.SL.i386.rpm
**      anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-1.SL.i386.rpm

**Release and yum
**	Usual changes to move everything to 53
**	All 52 yum repos are now pointing at 5rolling
**	These will be changed to 53 when we are at RC2
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**      sl-release-5.3-0.1.rolling.i386.rpm
**      sl-release-notes-5.3-0.1.rolling.noarch.rpm
**      yum-3.2.19-18.sl.noarch.rpm
**      yum-conf-53-0.1.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm

**Apache
**	Changes to have it say Scientific Linux instead of RHEL
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**      httpd-2.2.3-22.sl5.i386.rpm
**      httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.i386.rpm
**      httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.sl5.i386.rpm
**      mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.sl5.i386.rpm

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CHANGES by The Upstream Vendor
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**cachefilesd
**
**	Removed by Vendor

**compat-dapl-1.2.5
**
**	Renamed to be just compat-dapl

**firstboot
**
**	Is now arch dependant.  It used to be a noarch rpm.

**kmod-gfs2
**
**	Drivers moved into main kernel.  Rpm's now removed.

**netconfig
**
**	Removed by Vendor

**openib
**
**	Is now a noarch rpm.  It used to be arch dependant.
**	The sdpnetstat rpm has been removed because of the openib update

**pump-devel
**
**	Removed by Vendor

**sysreport
**
**	Removed by Vendor