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Scientific Linux 5.9 Alpha 1 i386/x86_64 is now available for testing
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:06:58 -0600
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Scientific Linux "SL 5.9" for i386/x86_64 -- ALPHA 1        Jan 10, 2013

Items marked with a "*" indicate changes since 5.8

See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes.

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MAJOR CHANGES compared to SL 5.8
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ndiswrapper

*       The previously bundled ndiswrapper package was not added to
*       SL5.9.
*       The package no longer built successfully against the current
*       kernel.
*       Current ndiswrapper kernel module and utility packages are
*       available in external repos such as elrepo.

JAVA

*       The closed-source Java 6 packages are end of life as of
*       Feb 2013.
*       They are not included in SL5 starting with SL5.9 .  Openjdk 1.6
*       and 1.7 are included by TUV. It is believed that openjdk is an
*       acceptable replacement.
*       The closed-source packages can still be downloaded from
*       http://java.sun.com/

yum-conf

*       yum-conf and yum-conf-5x no longer provide
*          /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe.repo

*       yum-conf-elrepo has been added so that people can easily install
*       the elrepo repository.  This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .

*       yum-conf-adobe has been added so that people can easily install
*       the adobe repository.  This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .


*               yum-conf-59-1.sl.rolling.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-5x-1-11.SL.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-elrepo-5-1.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-adobe-5-1.i686.rpm
*               yum-conf-adobe-5-1.x86_64.rpm

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REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5
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We have removed the cc-ael4 config files as SL has not been reviewed for
this certification.
*       cc-eal4-config-rhel56

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ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS that were released after TUV Update 9
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*Security errata will not be placed in the default install tree as has
*been done with prior releases of Scientific Linux 5.  They will only
*reside in the updates/security/ directory.

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