Scientific Linux SL 5.9 for i386 RC2 is now available for testing
We will release this RC2 as released on Feb 5, 2013 unless we hear about a important issue. Scientific Linux SL 5.9 for i386 Feb 5, 2013 Items marked with a * indicate changes since 5.8 See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov -- Table of contents DOWNLOAD INFO ADDED compared to Enterprise 5 UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5 Installer/legal modifications REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5 CHANGED by Upstream Vendor /contrib SRPMS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS LIMITATIONS INFO ERRATA RPMS that have not built yet _ DOWNLOAD INFO _ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/i386/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/i386/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/i386/ - ADDED compared to vendor - 915resolution 915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server. 915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that 915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for it's changes to take effect. 915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler. 915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel. 915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5 alpine Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing Communications at the University of Washington. Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to our 1.0 version An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer overwriting an existing pine.conf Therefore an existing pine.conf in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it. Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile This version of alpine when it writes to a large old Unix mailbox format email area can be very slow. The best solution to this is to convert your old Unix mailbox files to mix format mail files. More info can be obtained from Evaluation of file formats: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000971.html Problem description: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-February/thread.html#1658 Conversion : http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-imap/198358-mailutil-mix-file-size.html alpine-2.02-2.el5 AUFS Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs, which unifies several directories and provides a merged single directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented Unionfs. aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5 * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5PAE-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.i686.rpm cfitsio CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community. cfitsio-3.100-1.el5 cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5 dkms This package contains the framework for the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing module RPMS as originally developed by Dell. * Updated dkms to the latest version from EPEL * dkms-2.2.0.3-1.el5 dropit dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from a PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields. dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files. dropit-1.2-1 fftw FFTW is a C
Scientific Linux SL 5.9 for x86_64 RC2 is now available for testing
We will release this RC2 as released on Feb 5, 2013 unless we hear about a important issue. --- Scientific Linux SL 5.9 for x86_64 Feb 5, 2013 Items marked with a * indicate changes since 5.8 See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov -- Table of contents DOWNLOAD INFO ADDED compared to Enterprise 5 UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5 Installer/legal modifications REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5 CHANGED by Upstream Vendor /contrib SRPMS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS LIMITATIONS INFO ERRATA RPMS that have not built yet _ DOWNLOAD INFO _ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/ - ADDED compared to vendor - 915resolution 915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server. 915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that 915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for it's changes to take effect. 915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler. 915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel. 915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5 alpine Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing Communications at the University of Washington. Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to our 1.0 version An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer overwriting an existing pine.conf Therefore an existing pine.conf in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it. Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile This version of alpine when it writes to a large old Unix mailbox format email area can be very slow. The best solution to this is to convert your old Unix mailbox files to mix format mail files. More info can be obtained from Evaluation of file formats: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000971.html Problem description: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-February/thread.html#1658 Conversion : http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-imap/198358-mailutil-mix-file-size.html alpine-2.02-2.el5 AUFS Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs, which unifies several directories and provides a merged single directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented Unionfs. aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5 * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm cfitsio CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community. cfitsio-3.100-1.el5 cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5 dkms This package contains the framework for the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing module RPMS as originally developed by Dell. * Updated dkms to the latest version from EPEL * dkms-2.2.0.3-1.el5 dropit dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from a PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields. dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files. dropit-1.2-1 fftw FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform
