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Scientific Linux 6.4 i386/x86_64                    Mar 28, 2013

As a reminder, the SL6x repo always points to the most recent release.  The
SL6x repo has been updated to SL6.4 at this time.

Users of the Scientific Linux 6x repo should run    yum clean expire-cache
This should allow yum to notice the updated metadata within the 6x repo.

Mirror sites are encouraged to synchronize their mirrors at this time.

You can read the full release notes at:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/sl-release-notes-6.4.html
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Download

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/

ISO Download area
i686:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/i386/iso/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/i386/iso/readme

x86_64:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/iso/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/iso/readme

Mirror List

http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors

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Major Differences from SL6.3

As always we encourage you to read the official release notes:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/sl-release-notes-6.4.html

OpenAFS
     OpenAFS kernel module package has changed. With SL6.0 we started
     packaging the OpenAFS client's kernel module according to the guidelines
     from TUV's Driver Update Program.

     Due to unanticipated changes with the 6.3 kernel, we've had to revisit
     the process. With the 6.4 release, we modified the packaging to provide a
     dedicated build of the module for each minor SL release, instead of one
     kernel module (kmod) for all SL6 kernels. Since the EL kernel ABI is
     supposed to be kept stable within a minor release, this should avoid the
     problems some SL users experienced.

     For those updating their system using yum, this change should be
     completely transparent.

yum-conf-sl6x
     This is now installed by default. You may remove it to return to the
     historical behavior.

yum-conf-sl-other
     This now features an entry for 'sl-addons' repo. For more information on
     sl-addons please view the README file within the addons repo itself.

xorg-x11-server
     Features a new ABI, this was a security errata so it should be available
     to earlier releases.

matahari
     Upstream has discontinued the matahari packages

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