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.