Re: Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
On 3 March 2011 15:35, Troy Dawson wrote: > March 3, 2011 > Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. > We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us > feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release > wouldn't be as good as it is. > > More information can be found at the distribution web site > > http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ > > There are CD and DVD iso images available at > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ Great, thanks. Was wondering if the Live CD is forthcoming?
Re: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
On 3/3/2011 14:18, Dave Capone wrote: I am not sure if I am missing something, but that link does not seem to point to a CentPlus kernel release that has the synthetic drivers enabled. It might not be enabled in that kernel either. If that is the case then your best bet is probably to compile your own kernel. -- Garrett Holmstrom
Re: Messing with the kernel (Was: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6)
On 3/3/2011 13:47, Brett Viren wrote: With the recent change in Red Hat's business tactics, messing with the kernel apparently just got more difficult: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html Or, maybe, now we should just consider Red Hat's kernels to come "pre-messed". -Brett. PS: my guess is that RH will not continue with this silly behavior. They should really know better. When I asked my account rep about this immediately after 6.0's release in November he responded (with typographical errors included), "There is work going on for kernel source browser but now ETA available for it." -- Garrett Holmstrom
Re: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
I am not sure if I am missing something, but that link does not seem to point to a CentPlus kernel release that has the synthetic drivers enabled. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert E. Blair wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm not sure what the Centos plan is for a release based on RHEL6 but in > > the past they had kernels that match the usual SL5 ones but with more > > drivers enabled under the "centosplus" repository. The repository here > > works fine for SL5.5: > > Gee, I never thought about "advertising" centosplus kernels on the SL > mailing list :-) > > The C6plus kernels are ready for testing. Currently they are available > from my site. More details are found at: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 > > Akemi >
Re: 6.0 installation problems
The video problem was solved using the second option on the install list - ie installing with the basic video driver. On 03/03/2011 03:13 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: On 03/03/2011 02:55 PM, Ken Teh wrote: I'm trying to install 6.0 x86_64 on a machine using the enterprise storage option. The machine hosts a 16TB disk array. The OS is to be installed on a software raid set of smaller disks separate from the 16TB array. A couple of questions: (1) Is the enterprise storage option the right option? I'm not using any of the FCoE, iSCSI, etc., options. Just plain hardware raid 5. I don't know about any "enterprise storage option" so I'm not sure what to say. "Scalable Filesystem" is really just XFS support (2) I'm having trouble with the graphical install. The network dialog is too large for my screen and I cannot see the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box. Is there a text-based install? Installation instructions are here http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/installing/ I suggest that you try to find some option to change the video resolution. You really don't want to try text install. Text install instructions are here http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/installing/install-guide-text-full.html NOTES about text install * You are unable to do customized partitions in text mode. * You are unable to review and edit partitions in text mode. * You are unable to put your boot loader anyplace special in text mode. * You are unable to select packages and/or groups in text mode. You only get a minimal install. This is the way the installer comes from The Upstream Vendor. Troy
Messing with the kernel (Was: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6)
Troy Dawson writes: > It has been the tradition of Scientific Linux to never mess with the > kernel. It's not a matter of not knowing how to recompile the kernel, > it's a matter of support. We don't have the resources to support a > second kernel. With the recent change in Red Hat's business tactics, messing with the kernel apparently just got more difficult: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html Or, maybe, now we should just consider Red Hat's kernels to come "pre-messed". -Brett. PS: my guess is that RH will not continue with this silly behavior. They should really know better. pgpBmhQCPIm49.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 6.0 installation problems
On 03/03/2011 02:55 PM, Ken Teh wrote: I'm trying to install 6.0 x86_64 on a machine using the enterprise storage option. The machine hosts a 16TB disk array. The OS is to be installed on a software raid set of smaller disks separate from the 16TB array. A couple of questions: (1) Is the enterprise storage option the right option? I'm not using any of the FCoE, iSCSI, etc., options. Just plain hardware raid 5. I don't know about any "enterprise storage option" so I'm not sure what to say. "Scalable Filesystem" is really just XFS support (2) I'm having trouble with the graphical install. The network dialog is too large for my screen and I cannot see the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box. Is there a text-based install? Installation instructions are here http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/installing/ I suggest that you try to find some option to change the video resolution. You really don't want to try text install. Text install instructions are here http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/installing/install-guide-text-full.html NOTES about text install * You are unable to do customized partitions in text mode. * You are unable to review and edit partitions in text mode. * You are unable to put your boot loader anyplace special in text mode. * You are unable to select packages and/or groups in text mode. You only get a minimal install. This is the way the installer comes from The Upstream Vendor. Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
6.0 installation problems
I'm trying to install 6.0 x86_64 on a machine using the enterprise storage option. The machine hosts a 16TB disk array. The OS is to be installed on a software raid set of smaller disks separate from the 16TB array. A couple of questions: (1) Is the enterprise storage option the right option? I'm not using any of the FCoE, iSCSI, etc., options. Just plain hardware raid 5. (2) I'm having trouble with the graphical install. The network dialog is too large for my screen and I cannot see the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box. Is there a text-based install? Appreciate any help you may have. Thanks Ken
Re: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Robert E. Blair wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm not sure what the Centos plan is for a release based on RHEL6 but in > the past they had kernels that match the usual SL5 ones but with more > drivers enabled under the "centosplus" repository. The repository here > works fine for SL5.5: Gee, I never thought about "advertising" centosplus kernels on the SL mailing list :-) The C6plus kernels are ready for testing. Currently they are available from my site. More details are found at: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4586 Akemi
Re: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure what the Centos plan is for a release based on RHEL6 but in the past they had kernels that match the usual SL5 ones but with more drivers enabled under the "centosplus" repository. The repository here works fine for SL5.5: [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus baseurl=http://mirror.anl.gov/centos/5.5/centosplus/$basearch includepkgs=kernel* gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Of course you need to do some excludes in the usual SL repos. On 03/03/2011 01:22 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: > On 03/03/2011 12:14 PM, Dave Capone wrote: >> Hi, >> Is there a way to enable to the Hyper-V synthetic drivers in the SL6 >> kernel similiar to Ubuntu? >> Can they be enabled with a recompile? > > I currently don't know, I'll leave that for others to answer. > >> If so, would the SL >> developers/contributors consider publishing 2 versions of the >> distribution, one with the drivers enabled and another with them >> disabled? I am admittedly unfamiliar with recompiling linux kernels to >> add this support. > > That I can answer. The answer is no. > It has been the tradition of Scientific Linux to never mess with the > kernel. It's not a matter of not knowing how to recompile the kernel, > it's a matter of support. We don't have the resources to support a > second kernel. > > Troy - -- Robert E. Blair, Room C221, Building 360 Argonne National Laboratory (High Energy Physics Division) 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Phone: (630)-252-7545 FAX: (630)-252-5047 GnuPG Public Key: http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb/key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTW/s0vQM1KNWz8QaAQJJJAgAwQig1EApGONMKbu9G/U0S7lC01dVcVPF 9pycI9sytdhE4SSR1J/qaJbdaJYRR61A8ZWG4gPKHbijBplM54VixWq3Luvei7yG 9qP3BYcJhVTrPLaA6bvBONn26SGlC4LAyc5CGalnmQMe2GbTnMhnx76Jm32zqZh/ QQVCom30Tb5kkB/bawvi3S4ZlZam42atUC3+S11bZeH5kjsr/YrkJD/L/9ombr62 yTJ5vFa9FgkLwWG/pkXx/0DnP2u1suoO6ld5btCAMY0EwObxer/GhRWVo1Ld/GDH u5bov5fI5i/tyN3oa1Azz9/o8GzNEf+Caz/ltMUutdGtQZV91hnC4A== =EJN2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- <> smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
On 03/03/2011 12:14 PM, Dave Capone wrote: Hi, Is there a way to enable to the Hyper-V synthetic drivers in the SL6 kernel similiar to Ubuntu? Can they be enabled with a recompile? I currently don't know, I'll leave that for others to answer. If so, would the SL developers/contributors consider publishing 2 versions of the distribution, one with the drivers enabled and another with them disabled? I am admittedly unfamiliar with recompiling linux kernels to add this support. That I can answer. The answer is no. It has been the tradition of Scientific Linux to never mess with the kernel. It's not a matter of not knowing how to recompile the kernel, it's a matter of support. We don't have the resources to support a second kernel. Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Hyper-V Synthetic drivers on SL6
Hi, Is there a way to enable to the Hyper-V synthetic drivers in the SL6 kernel similiar to Ubuntu? Can they be enabled with a recompile? If so, would the SL developers/contributors consider publishing 2 versions of the distribution, one with the drivers enabled and another with them disabled? I am admittedly unfamiliar with recompiling linux kernels to add this support.
Re: DVD iso too big for IE
I forgot to mention that sl5.5 does not detect wireless network automatically with the installing version like windows, so is sl6 doing it?. I think sl should have at installation all tools (and updated) for most important applications and for most wireless models instead of installing them by hand. rachid On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Rachid Ayad wrote: Thank you troy for your answers. Yes i will try this and also I just found the 5.5 iso I saved a year agao and will use it as I lost my 5.5 dvds I burn a year ago. Do you advise us to use sl6 instead or is too early to use it as we will use our linux linux boxes for a research collaboration and we need all the programs run well there. Rachid On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: If that is the case, then the other two things I would do is 1 - Do a md5sum check on your downloaded iso and make sure it matches. 2 - Make sure my burning software knows that you are trying to burn a DVD and not a CD. If you've checked both of those, then it is beyond my knowledge of what to do. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:49 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: I think it was fully downloaded as I see 4,277,... KB. Also I think also is was ftp as before the link is mentioned ftp I will check in my office. will let you know. thank you, rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Rachid, When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact number) So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting the whole image. To fix this, download via ftp instead of http. So go to ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ instead of http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __ -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Re: DVD iso too big for IE
Thank you troy for your answers. Yes i will try this and also I just found the 5.5 iso I saved a year agao and will use it as I lost my 5.5 dvds I burn a year ago. Do you advise us to use sl6 instead or is too early to use it as we will use our linux linux boxes for a research collaboration and we need all the programs run well there. Rachid On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: If that is the case, then the other two things I would do is 1 - Do a md5sum check on your downloaded iso and make sure it matches. 2 - Make sure my burning software knows that you are trying to burn a DVD and not a CD. If you've checked both of those, then it is beyond my knowledge of what to do. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:49 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: I think it was fully downloaded as I see 4,277,... KB. Also I think also is was ftp as before the link is mentioned ftp I will check in my office. will let you know. thank you, rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Rachid, When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact number) So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting the whole image. To fix this, download via ftp instead of http. So go to ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ instead of http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __ -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Re: DVD iso too big for IE
If that is the case, then the other two things I would do is 1 - Do a md5sum check on your downloaded iso and make sure it matches. 2 - Make sure my burning software knows that you are trying to burn a DVD and not a CD. If you've checked both of those, then it is beyond my knowledge of what to do. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:49 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: I think it was fully downloaded as I see 4,277,... KB. Also I think also is was ftp as before the link is mentioned ftp I will check in my office. will let you know. thank you, rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Rachid, When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact number) So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting the whole image. To fix this, download via ftp instead of http. So go to ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ instead of http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __ -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Re:DVD iso too big for IE
I think it was fully downloaded as I see 4,277,... KB. Also I think also is was ftp as before the link is mentioned ftp I will check in my office. will let you know. thank you, rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Rachid, When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact number) So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting the whole image. To fix this, download via ftp instead of http. So go to ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ instead of http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Re:DVD iso too big for IE
Hi Rachid, When downloading files in Internet Explorer, you cannot download anything bigger than 4 Gig via http. (It might be 3.9 Gig, I don't know the exact number) So when you try to download our disk1 DVD, you are never getting the whole image. To fix this, download via ftp instead of http. So go to ftp://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ instead of http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso/ And you should get a full image for the 5.5 dvd's. Troy On 03/03/2011 10:03 AM, Rachid Ayad wrote: Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __
Re: Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
Valery, Fixing now. Thanks for reporting this. Both the 6rolling and 6.0 trees are identical. So anyone who has downloaded 6x has really gotten 6.0. -Connie Sieh On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Valery Mitsyn wrote: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --Boundary_(ID_zGUmx4x5GmmyOaZyLhpuIQ) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=KOI8-R Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: This is awesome!! Yes. But some links from 6x still point to ../6rolling there are: archive, i386, x86_64. Could this be changed? On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Troy Dawson wrot= e: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given u= s feedback. =9AWithout everyone's contributions, help and testing, t= his release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team --=20 Best regards, Valery Mitsyn --Boundary_(ID_zGUmx4x5GmmyOaZyLhpuIQ)--
Re: Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
Dear Troy, These days I downloaded the 5.5 dvd iso images and dics2 is well burned to dvd however I had really problem to burn disc1 where the system tells "the file isn't an image". Is disc1 iso image is corrupted at sl ftp site? I downloaded the disc1 image several times in two different windows 7 machines and I had the same problem every time I do it. I did it a year ago and it worked but this time i found really problems to burn disc1 iso image. Thank you, Rachid. On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team
Re: Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: This is awesome!! Yes. But some links from 6x still point to ../6rolling there are: archive, i386, x86_64. Could this be changed? On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Troy Dawson wrote: March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team -- Best regards, Valery Mitsyn
Scientific Linux 6.0 is officially released
March 3, 2011 Scientific Linux 6.0 is now officially released and available. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without everyone's contributions, help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is. More information can be found at the distribution web site http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/6.0/ There are CD and DVD iso images available at http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ -- The Scientific Linux Development Team Title: Release Notes Scientific Linux 6.0 Release Notes Release Notes for Scientific Linux 6.0 March 3, 2011 The Upstream Vendor 6.0 release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov Table of Contents Differences from SL5 Added compared to Enterprise 6 Tweak RPMs added Changed compared to Enterprise 6 Info Differences from SL5 "Sites" and "Spins" From the beginning, we always wanted people to take Scientific Linux and make it their own. Derivatives from Scientific Linux, such as Scientific Linux Fermi (SLF) or Scientific Linux Cern (SLC), were called "sites". Because "sites" can refer to many things (web-sites, building-site, etc..) we have started calling "sites" "spins". The same as Fedora calls them. Only Original Packages are in the install In SL3-SL5 we always put the security and bugfix packages into the release as we built the release. So when we released a release it always "had the latest errata up until (date)". For SL6 the final release will only have the same packages that were originally released by TUV. All security and bugfix errata are in their respective repositories. Fewer Packages Added Many scientific programs were being put in external repositories, such as EPEL. These external repositories often had the same packages that we added to Scientific Linux 5. To reduce duplicating efforts, reduce version and dependency problems, and create less confusion, we have reduced the number of extra packages we put in Scientific Linux 6. Some packages have also become part of TUV's release, and so are automatically part of SL6. Current status of packages added to SL5 Package Location Comments 915resolution atrpms alpine epel cfitsio epel dkms epel, rpmforge fftw atrpms, epel fuse in SL6Provided by TUV graphviz in SL6Provided by TUV gv epel icewm In SL6Provided by SL iwp*, iwl*in SL6Provided by TUV jdk - obsolete by openjdkcan still get from Oracle if needed. kdeedu - Must get from KdeEdu site luain SL6Provided by TUV numpyin SL6Provided by TUV openafsIn SL6Provided by SL Repel scipy - Must get from scipy site suitesparseepel tidyin SL6Provided by TUV XFSin SL6 x86_64 Provided by TUV There is no contrib repository. The SL contrib repository held extra drivers that weren't in the normal kernel. This effort was duplicated by repositories elrepo and atrpms. Instead of duplicating their efforts, we have make it easy to install their repositories. ADDED compared to Enterprise 6 Packages added We have added several packages to Scientific Linux that are not found anywhere on the Enterprise releases. icewm Summary : Fast and small X11 window manager Added because we needed a lightweight modern window manager. There are some machines that just don't have much CPU and/or memory, and both KDE and GNOME can really slow these machines down. This is not installed by default. -- icewm -- icewm-l10n -- imlib - for dependancies -- gtk+ - for dependancies -- glib - for dependancies openafs Summary : OpenAFS distributed filesystem Added because many educational and research centers around the world use AFS as some type of central file system. This is not installed by default. -- openafs -- openafs-authlibs -- openafs-client -- openafs-compat -- openafs-firstboot -- openafs-kernel-source -- openafs-kpasswd -- openafs-krb5 -- openafs-plumbing-tools -- openafs-server -- kmod-openafs revisor, livecd-tools, liveusb-creator Summary : Scientific Linux Spin Creation Tools to create Scientific Linux "Spins" or "Sites" This is not installed by default. -- revisor -- revisor-cli -- revisor-gui -- revisor-isolinux -- revisor-rebrand -- revisor-reuseinstaller -- revisor-unity-scripts -- sl-revisor-configs -- livecd-tools -- liveusb-creator yum-autoupdate Summary : Automatically update your machine daily via yum. Added for those users who want their system automatically updated without having to worry about doing it by hand. This is installed by default. -- yum-autoupdate external yum repositories Summary : Various External Yum Repositories These are not supported by Scientific Linux but are here for your convenience. This is not installed by default. -- adobe-release -- atrpms-repo -- elrepo-release -- epel-release -- rpmforge-release Tweak RPMs ADDED One of the goals of Scientific Linux is to be as close to the original vendor release of Ente
