On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> February 12, 2009
> The secpmd beta release for Scientific Linux 5.3 i386 has been released
> for both i386 and x86_64.
>
> We do not have CD or DVD images, but we will hopefully have them soon.

CD iso images for i386 are now available from

ftp: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/iso/i386

-Connie Sieh
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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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> **ALPINE
> **  Updated to the latest version
> **  Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to
> **  our 1.0 version
> **  An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer
> **    overwriting an existing pine.conf  Therefore an existing pine.conf
> **    in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For
> **    an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample
> **    conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it.
> **    Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile
>  i386:
> **	alpine-2.00-1.el5.i386.rpm
>  x86_64:
> **	alpine-2.00-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> **AUFS
> **  Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs,
> **  which unifies several directories and provides a merged single
> **  directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented
> **  Unionfs.
>  i386:
> **aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
> **kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
> **kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
> **kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm
>  x86_64:
> **aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
> **kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
> **kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
> **kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
> **kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
>
> **ICEWM
> **  Updated to latest version
> **  Added OpenOffice to the menu and toolbar
>  i386:
> **	icewm-1.2.37-1.i386.rpm
> **	icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.i386.rpm
>  x86_64:	  	**	icewm-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm
> **	icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm
>
> **INTEL wireless firmware (ucode)
> **  Added iwlwifi-3945-ucode (firmware)
> **    With the new driver in the kernel, and this new firmware,
> **    the old ipw3945 daemon and firmware are not needed.
> **  Updated iwlwifi-4965-ucode (firmware)
> **  Added iwlwifi-5000-ucode (firmware)
> **  These packages contains all releases of the firmware up
> **    to the version stated.
> **
> **	iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
> **	iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.57.2.23-7.el5.noarch.rpm
> **	iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11-1.el5.noarch.rpm
>
> **NUMPY
> **  numpy updated to latest version to correspond with scipy
>  i386:
> **	numpy-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm
>  x86_64:
> **	numpy-1.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm
>
> **INSTALLER (anaconda)
> **  Removed code to verify that timezone is correct in kickstart
> **  as it had bugs
>  i386:
> **	anaconda-11.1.2.168-2.SL.i386.rpm
> **	anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-2.SL.i386.rpm
>  x86_64:
> **	anaconda-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm
> **	anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> **PYTHON-VIRTINST
> **  python-virtinst would understand a plain Scientific Linux install,
> **  but it didn't understand sites.  We have added a patch to allow it
> **  to understand and install paravirtualized SL Sites.
> **
> **	python-virtinst-0.300.2-12.sl.1.noarch.rpm
>
>
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> comps.xml changes
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> comps.xml
>
> BASE
>   Added: iwlwifi-3945-ucode - default, iwlwifi-5000-ucode - default
>   Removed: ipw3945-firmware
>
> IPW3945
>   Whole group removed
>
> Note:  The ipw3945 packages were not removed from the release.  They were 
> only taken out of the comps.xml to avoid confusion during installation.
>
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