Hi,

Scientific Linux 6.1 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are also officially released.
They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager

LiveMiniCD     icewm
LiveCD         gnome
LiveDVD        gnome, kde, icewm

Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE)
to include additional filesystem support (ntfs, reiserfs), more secure
network connection (openvpn, vpnc, pptp), and filesystem tools
(dd_rescue, ddrescue, gparted).


DOWNLOAD

- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/61/i386
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/61/x86_64
or
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/iso
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/iso

Alternatively use a public mirror or torrent:

- http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors
- http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/livecd/?id=28


CHANGES SINCE SL60 LIVE

- Rename LiveCD user from "sluser" to "liveuser"
- Build with Fedora livecd-tools 13.3
- Extra software (not included in standard SL) is now taken
   from a new repository called "livecd-extra"
- RPMs in livecd-extra repository are taken from rpmforge, epel
   and elrepoal, and are always up-to-date
- "livecd-extra" repo is defined inyum-conf-livecd-extra and
   livecd-extra-release RPMs
- fuse-ntfs-3g replaced with ntfs-3g
- progsreiserfs removed
- testdisk removed (which broke some update)
- Add gstreamer-ffmpeg from rpmforge (for playing mp3, mpeg, ...)
- Icewm removed from LiveCD to save diskspace. Icewm is still on
   LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD.


NOTES

- For SL6 the way how the LiveCD was built has completely changed. It is
   now based on the Fedora LiveCD Tools.
- If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live
   image is now done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation.
- You can also install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes
   using liveusb-creator included in SL6.
- To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from SL6.


SOFTWARE

- kernel 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6
- xorg 1.7.7
- icewm 1.2.37
- gnome 2.28
- firefox 3.6.18
- thunderbird 3.1.11
- openoffice.org 3.2.1 (only on LiveDVD)
- kde 4.3.4 (only on LiveDVD)
   ... and more


EXTRA SOFTWARE (from repo livecd-extra)

- fuse-sshfs
- ntfs-3g
- ntfsprogs
- dd_rescue
- ddrescue
- iperf
- flash-plugin (not on 64-bit LiveCD and LiveMiniCD)
- rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD)
- gparted
- NetworkManager-openvpn
- NetworkManager-vpnc
- NetworkManager-pptp
- vpnc-consoleuser
- kmod-reiserfs
- kmod-ndiswrapper
- reiserfs-utils


BOOT PARAMETERS

- live_ram         copy entire Live image to RAM (takes a few minutes)
- noswap           do not use SWAP partition found on hard drive
- pw=any_password  set password
- noautologin      disable auto login
- automount        enable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
- user=username    username of local user, default is liveuser
- cups=server      the CUPS server
- hostname=name    set the hostname
- check            verify LiveCD before booting
- liveinst         directly start graphical installation to hard drive
- textinst         directly start text based installation to hard drive
- overlay=UUID=    defines the UUID of the USB device used for persistent overlay


More information can be found at
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

Urs Beyerle