On 06/11/2011 10:53 AM, Alain Péan wrote:
> Le 10/06/2011 17:03, Stijn De Weirdt a écrit :
>> we are running SL5.6 x86_64 (2.6.18-238.9.1) on a 96GB machine without
>> issues.
>>
>
> Hi all,
>
> It's a little bit off topic, but I thought that SLC was the CERN variant
> of Scientific Linux. And SL 5.6 is not yet released. I saw that SLC 5.6
> was released months ago and is now the official release for CERN. So,
> for my information (and perhaps others), why is there a SLC 5.6 release
> and not yet a SL 5.6 one ?
>
> Thanks for the clarification !
>
> Alain

Short clarification, I'll let someone from CERN clarify longer if they want.
SLC 5.6 has all the updates and packages from SL 5.6.  Those packages 
have already passed our tests, and I assume CERN's tests.
The reason SL 5.6 isn't out yet is due to two installer problems, not 
package problems.  So if CERN modifies their installer different than 
plain SL, it is quite possible for them to beat the plain SL out with a 
release.

Troy
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