Located in standard "rolling" area http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/ -Connie Sieh On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Pat Riehecky wrote: > Scientific Linux "SL 5.9" for i386/x86_64 -- ALPHA 1 Jan 10, 2013 > > Items marked with a "*" indicate changes since 5.8 > > See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes. > > Send comments/issues/test reports to [log in to unmask] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MAJOR CHANGES compared to SL 5.8 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ndiswrapper > > * The previously bundled ndiswrapper package was not added to > * SL5.9. > * The package no longer built successfully against the current > * kernel. > * Current ndiswrapper kernel module and utility packages are > * available in external repos such as elrepo. > > JAVA > > * The closed-source Java 6 packages are end of life as of > * Feb 2013. > * They are not included in SL5 starting with SL5.9 . Openjdk 1.6 > * and 1.7 are included by TUV. It is believed that openjdk is an > * acceptable replacement. > * The closed-source packages can still be downloaded from > * http://java.sun.com/ > > yum-conf > > * yum-conf and yum-conf-5x no longer provide > * /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe.repo > > * yum-conf-elrepo has been added so that people can easily install > * the elrepo repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror . > > * yum-conf-adobe has been added so that people can easily install > * the adobe repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror . > > > * yum-conf-59-1.sl.rolling.noarch.rpm > * yum-conf-5x-1-11.SL.noarch.rpm > * yum-conf-elrepo-5-1.noarch.rpm > * yum-conf-adobe-5-1.i686.rpm > * yum-conf-adobe-5-1.x86_64.rpm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > We have removed the cc-ael4 config files as SL has not been reviewed for > this certification. > * cc-eal4-config-rhel56 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS that were released after TUV Update 9 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *Security errata will not be placed in the default install tree as has > *been done with prior releases of Scientific Linux 5. They will only > *reside in the updates/security/ directory. >