The first alpha release for Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for both i386 and x86_64. This release has most of the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors Update 5. It will install, and it appears to work, but no major testing has been done. We are working on the DVD's and will let you know when/if they are available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386 http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES by Scientific Linux ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * sl-release-5.5-0.1.rolling.i386.rpm * sl-release-notes-5.5-0.1.rolling.noarch.rpm * yum-conf-55-0.1.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm * yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch.rpm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES by The Upstream Vendor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *freeradius2 - Added *gsl -- Added *openoffice.org -- Updated to 3.1.1 *postgresql84 -- Added -- postgresql84 cannot be installed alongside postgreql -- postgresql databased are fundamentally different than postgreql84 databases. Because of that in order to update you have to do a dump of the postgresql database, and then restore to a postgresql84 database *samba3x -- Added *tzdata -- Changed from noarch to i386 -- added tzdata-java *xz -- Added