Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> We have released the first Beta of Scientific Linux 6.
> 
> The release is at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/
> 
> DVD and Net Install downloads are at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/
> 
> 
> ***CHANGED SINCE ALPHA 5***
> *OpenAFS fixed*
> The selinux openafs problem has been fixed.
> 
> *SL_password_for_singleuser fixed*
> The mechanism to enforce password authentication has changed, that's now 
> configured in /etc/sysconfig/init.  This update reflects that change.
> 
> *Compiled packages against TUV packages*
> We have finished the check of our packages against TUV packages.  We 
> check files, permissions, scripts, requires, depends, and a few other 
> checks.  When there was a discrepancy we rebuilt our package using 
> different parameters to match TUV packages.
> With this release we fixed the following packages.
> elinks
> jwhois
> perl-CGI-Session
> perl-IPC-Run3
> perl-Makefile-Parser
> perl-Sys-Virt
> perl-Test-Memory-Cycle
> 
> 
> ***KNOWN ISSUES***
> If you install openafs during the install, you do not get the firstboot
> screen that asks you which cell you want.
> 
> If you are on a x86_64 machine, install the adobe repo, and install
> flash-plugin and/or AdobeReader_enu, you will get AdobeReader_<random
> language> in addition to what you asked for.  You will also get many 
> i686 packages installed for dependancies.
> 
> 
> ***CHANGES PLANNED FOR BETA 2***
> 
> We are planning on SL6 BETA 2 to be released Friday January
> 22, 2011
January 28, 2011
(We're not good enough to have it ready by tomorrow)

> 
> Expected Updates for Beta 2
> - yum-autoupdate and possibly yum-cron.  Both of these with 
> automatically update your system nightly.  The goal is for both of these 
> packages to be independent and not conflict with each other.
> - get openafs firstboot to run correctly.  This is going to involve a
> rewrite, so will take longer than we expected.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped thus far.
> The Scientific Linux Development Team
> 

Troy
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