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Troy,

You have a list of changes with this release of the testing kernel by
any chance?

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, I find this rather funny.
> While I was getting everything ready and sending out this email, TUV pushing
> out a new kernel for 6.
> But nevertheless ... if you want to try this kernel, it's there in testing.
> Troy
>
> On 06/01/2011 03:55 PM, Troy J Dawson wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Traditionally the first kernel for a minor update is full of bugs so we
>> generally don't release it in regular security area.  But for those
>> people who want to install the kernel, we need to make it accessable.
>> So we have put it into our testing repository.
>>
>> If enough people test this kernel and we don't find any bugs, we will
>> push it out to regular security, but the odds are that The Upstream
>> Vendor will have another kernel out by then.
>>
>> To test or update
>>
>> SL6
>> -------
>>
>>    yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
>>
>> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>>
>>
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/testing/i386/kernel/
>>
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/
>>
>> kernel-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
>>
>> Thanks
>> Troy Dawson
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