On 06/02/2011 10:51 AM, Duquaine Michel wrote:
> Troy,
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> Thanks for this SL-61 Alpha 1 Release and thanks also to Shawn Thompson for the nice artwork!
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> I tested a SL-61 desktop installation
> - in a VirtualBox with SL-61-i386-2011-05-31-Install-DVD.iso : result ok
> - via a SL-60 i386 boot iso and http install : result ok
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Thank you for testing and sending feedback.

> Small remark: could you check the SHA256SUM files?  I think there are not the good ones.
>

Updated with the real sums.
Thanks for letting us know.
Troy

> Thanks and regards,
> Michel
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> Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 12:00 -0500, Troy Dawson a écrit :
>> June 1, 2011
>> The first alpha release for Scientific Linux 6.1 has been released.
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>> This release has all the new updated packages from
>> The Upstream Vendors (TUV) Update 1.
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>> It will install, and it appears to work, but no major testing has been
>> done.
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>> DOWNLOAD INFO
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>> 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/
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>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> SL Changes from SL 6.0 (in addition to TUV changes.)
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>> * redhat-logos
>> - Shawn Thompson created a whole new graphical theme for SL 6 called
>> "Edge Of Space".
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>> * sl-release
>> - We pulled the fastbugs and testing repo's out of the repository file
>> that comes with sl-release.  They are now in their own rpm called
>> yum-conf-sl-other.
>> - This is done to fix the problem of people checking the fastbugs during
>> the install, fastbugs is then not on by default, and updates break.
>> * yum-conf-sl-other
>> This contains the sl-fastbugs, sl-testing, and sl-debuginfo yum
>> repositories.
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>> KNOWN Issues
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>>
>> Packages not compiled yet.
>> - mksh
>>
>> Packages we change that haven't been changed yet.
>> - plymouth
>> - report
>>
>> Packages that built but we're still testing for one reason or another.
>> - perl-IO-Tty
>> - perl-IPC-Run
>> - qemu-kvm
>> - virt-viewer
>>
>>
>> The Scientific Linux Development Team
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