On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Connie Sieh wrote:

> 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

DVD iso images for i386 are now available from

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

-Connie Sieh
>
> -Connie Sieh
>>
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>> ftp:  //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
>> ftp:  //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64
>>
>>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  CHANGES by Scientific Linux
>>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  **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
>>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  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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