The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 6.2 has been released!
Changes since Release Candidate 1:
- fixed the inclusion of foreign language support files for
non-English environments
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/readmehttp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/iso/http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/iso/readme
It is also available for mirroring at this time.
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Release Notes for Scientific Linux 6.2 Release Candidate 2 Feb 7, 2012
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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
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
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.
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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer
