The first beta release for Scientific Linux 5.7 has been released. This release has all the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors Update 7, as well as the security and fastbugs up to yesterday. We have network install images, and DVD images. No CD images are available at this time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES Since Alpha 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installer - Anaconda has been updated to the version released with Update 7. We have added the normal Scientific Linux patches to the installer. We had much better success with this than we did on SL 5.6 anaconda-11.1.2.242-2.SL Alpine - Alpine was updated to version 2.02 alpine-2.02-2.el5 Intel Wireless - iwlwifi-6000 was updated to version 9.221.4.1 iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1-1.el5 jdk - Oracles java was updated to version 1.6.0_26 java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.26-3.sl5.jpp jdk-1.6.0_26-fcs R - R was updated to version 2.13.1 R-2.13.1-1.sl5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64 Network Install Images http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/images/boot.iso http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/images/boot.iso DVD Images http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/iso/i386/dvd/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/iso/x86_64/dvd/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN Issues ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Scientific Linux Development Team