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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Whatever the latest security kernel is when we get to Release Candidate 2.

OK - do you anticipate that it will be some flavor of 2.6.18, or will it
be a later version?

(the reason I'm asking has to do with the default TCP congestion control
algorithms supplied with various kernel versions, and the bugs that they
do or do not have).

Thanks,

		--eli


> 
> Troy
> 
> Eli Dart wrote:
> Hi Troy,
> 
> What kernel version will ship with SL5.5?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         --eli
> 
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>> The first alpha release for Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for
>>>> both i386 and x86_64. This release has most of the new updated packages
>>>> from The Upstream Vendors Update 5.
>>>>
>>>> It will install, and it appears to work, but no major testing has been
>>>> done.
>>>>
>>>> We are working on the DVD's and will let you know when/if they are
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DOWNLOAD INFO
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
>>>>   http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CHANGES by Scientific Linux
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *    sl-release-5.5-0.1.rolling.i386.rpm
>>>> *    sl-release-notes-5.5-0.1.rolling.noarch.rpm
>>>> *    yum-conf-55-0.1.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm
>>>> *    yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch.rpm
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CHANGES by The Upstream Vendor
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *freeradius2 - Added
>>>>
>>>> *gsl -- Added
>>>>
>>>> *openoffice.org -- Updated to 3.1.1
>>>>
>>>> *postgresql84 -- Added
>>>> -- postgresql84 cannot be installed alongside postgreql
>>>> -- postgresql databased are fundamentally different than postgreql84
>>>> databases.  Because of that in order to update you have to do a dump of
>>>> the postgresql database, and then restore to a postgresql84 database
>>>>
>>>> *samba3x -- Added
>>>>
>>>> *tzdata
>>>> -- Changed from noarch to i386
>>>> -- added tzdata-java
>>>>
>>>> *xz -- Added
> 

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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