Hello, We have released the first Beta of Scientific Linux 6. The release is at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/ DVD and Net Install downloads are at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/ ***CHANGED SINCE ALPHA 5*** *OpenAFS fixed* The selinux openafs problem has been fixed. *SL_password_for_singleuser fixed* The mechanism to enforce password authentication has changed, that's now configured in /etc/sysconfig/init. This update reflects that change. *Compiled packages against TUV packages* We have finished the check of our packages against TUV packages. We check files, permissions, scripts, requires, depends, and a few other checks. When there was a discrepancy we rebuilt our package using different parameters to match TUV packages. With this release we fixed the following packages. elinks jwhois perl-CGI-Session perl-IPC-Run3 perl-Makefile-Parser perl-Sys-Virt perl-Test-Memory-Cycle ***KNOWN ISSUES*** If you install openafs during the install, you do not get the firstboot screen that asks you which cell you want. If you are on a x86_64 machine, install the adobe repo, and install flash-plugin and/or AdobeReader_enu, you will get AdobeReader_<random language> in addition to what you asked for. You will also get many i686 packages installed for dependancies. ***CHANGES PLANNED FOR BETA 2*** We are planning on SL6 BETA 2 to be released Friday January 22, 2011 Expected Updates for Beta 2 - yum-autoupdate and possibly yum-cron. Both of these with automatically update your system nightly. The goal is for both of these packages to be independent and not conflict with each other. - get openafs firstboot to run correctly. This is going to involve a rewrite, so will take longer than we expected. Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped thus far. The Scientific Linux Development Team