Fermilab's intention is to continue the development and support of 
Scientific Linux and refine its focus as an operating system for 
scientific computing. Today we are announcing an alpha release of 
Scientific Linux 7.  We continue to develop a stable process for 
generating and distributing Scientific Linux, with the intent that 
Scientific Linux remains the same high quality operating system the 
community has come to expect.


Scientific Linux 7.0 x86_64 ALPHA  - July 3, 2014

Please review the release notes at:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7rolling/x86_64/release-notes/

This URL may change further in the release cycle.

The Upstream release notes are at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/index.html

These packages were built at Fermilab from TUV's sources.

You can find the release at:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7rolling/

NOTE: The 'everything' dvd image requires a Dual-Layer (DL) compatible 
drive for both burning and booting off of.  The livecd-iso-to-disk 
utility is able to convert this to USB successfully.

Send comments/issues/test reports to:
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This update features a new artwork scheme from Suzanne Thompson.


This ALPHA does not include many historic SL addons.

We would like to open discussion on which specific packages/utilities 
should be added to SL 7.

Specific topics of conversation:
  - OpenAFS
    We are interested in OpenAFS for SL7

  - external yum repos
    We are interested in adding yum repos for the same projects hosted 
in SL6.  This includes elrepo, epel, rpmforge, and rpmfusion.

  - SL_* rpms

  - yum-autoupdate
    I would prefer to use yum-cron rather than yum-autoupdate for 
automatic updates.  These days they are very much feature compatible and 
fixes/enhancements can be sent upstream for the benefit of all.

  - installation media
    We are currently making two install iso images: network and 
everything.  Is this sufficient?

  - SL yum repos
    I'll have a separate thread for this later.

  - default tuning
    The current default tuning is the upstream provided 'balanced' from 
tuned.

  - Secure Boot
    Scientific Linux has joined the UEFI forum with the intent of 
providing valid secure boot images.  This it not yet implemented.


For organization sake, I'll ask that package/feature questions be put 
into their own email thread.