Release Notes for Scientific Linux 6.2 February 15 2012 The full release notes are available at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/62/ Differences from SL6.1 anaconda Added the Scientific Linux install classes DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed OpenAFS Updated to version 1.6.0-97.z2.sl6 This packages includes a patch to disable NAT pings to avoid a race condition livecd-tools, liveusb-creator Updated from upstream to version 13.4 Added support for SL 6.2 redhat-rpm-config Changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an Enterprise Linux sl-release removed Troy Dawson's GPG key added CERN's GPG added EULA yum-autoupdate yum-autoupdate has had PRERUN and POSTRUN scripts added for more flexibility External Repositories for yum The yum-conf-* packages now require yum-fastestmirror by popular request The new x86_64 adobe repo is now available mingw32, hivex, openmpi-psm Removed these packages from the i386 tree as they do not belong in that tree RHN related tools present in SL6.1 have been removed rhn-client-tools, rhnlib, rhnsd, rhn-setup-gnome, subscription-manager, yum-rhn-plugin Removed compared to Enterprise 6 RHN related tools * rhn-client-tools * rhnlib * rhnsd * rhn-setup-gnome * subscription-manager * yum-rhn-plugin VDSM * Was accidentally released by TUV. This is a part of RHEV and not Enterprise Linux. Download http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/ Iso Download area http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/i386/iso/readme http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/iso/readme Note: the boot.iso in the 'iso' directory is just a hard link of the one from images. The 6x link has been updated. The full release notes are available at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/62/ -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer
