Scientific Linux 6.1 Alpha 2

Troy Dawson has announced that the second alpha release of Linux, Scientific 6.1 distribution built by compiling the source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, is ready for testing: "The second alpha release for Scientific Linux 6.1 has been released All. Packet has been through more testing. There some packages that we're investigating, so we are still in alpha stage and not alpha 1 beta Changes:. redhat-logos-updated syslinux-splash.png and plash.xpm .. gz, adding SVG files into the source tar ball; yum auto-update - fix security problems with the configuration file tmp; added our changes to the report be updated and the package plymouth; mksh - we get it to compile; fence-virt - has to be recompiled with the old QMF packages removed from the repository; elrepo-release updates to the latest version ...."

Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in the upstream product; the most notable among these are various file systems, including Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs, wireless networking support with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper, Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), the lightweight IceWM window manager, R - a language and environment for statistical computing, and the Alpine email client.





 Download:
SL-6-i386-2011-06-23-Install-DVD.iso (3,609MB, SHA1),
SL-6-x86_64-2011-06-23-Install-DVD.iso (4,187MB, SHA1).

Thanks to distrowatch.com