For login, maybe we could just nab one of the old Ubuntu GDM themes and recolour it/shove in a BlueCurve gear icon. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Scientific Linux 5.6 RC 1 is now available. > > We have pushed out the latest update to SL 5.6. > There is both network install images as well as DVD images. > > The network install images are boot.iso in > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/images/ > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/images/ > The DVD images are at > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/iso/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changed since BETA 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - SL 5.6 has a new graphical theme called "Atom Shine" provided by > Shawn Thompson > > - sl-release and yum-conf were updated to point to 56 instead of 5rolling. > > - R was updated to 2.13.0 > > - On the distribution servers there is now a directory 56. For i386 and > x86_64 there are links to 5rolling. This does not mean that 56 is released, > it is only in release candidate. It is setup this way so that we can test. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Known Issues > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - The GDM login screen still has the old graphics instead of the new Atom > Shine graphics. This will be fixed in the next Release Candidate. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Future Info > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - We expect SL 5.6 RC2 out in two weeks. > > -Scientific Linux Development Team >