Located in standard "rolling" area
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/
-Connie Sieh
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 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.
>
