The second 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 Beta 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installer - Moved patch from /RHupdates to anaconda rpm - The anaconda option "--noeject" is now available. ** anaconda-11.1.2.242-3.SL.i386.rpm ** anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.242-3.SL.i386.rpm Intel Wireless - iwlwifi-XXXX-ucode was replaced with iwlXXXX-firmware to reflect the naming convention of The Upstream Vendor (TUV) ** iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm ** iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.el5.noarch.rpm ** iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-8.el5.noarch.rpm ** iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm ** iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm ** iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm We made sure that all i386 packages that are supposed to be in the x86_64, were actually *in* the x86_64 area. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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