Development Release: Scientific Linux 6.1 Beta 1 [distrowatch.org]

Troy Dawson has announced the availability of the first beta release of Scientific Linux 6.1, a Red Hat-based distribution with extra software likely to be of use in academic and scientific environments: "The first beta of Scientific Linux 6.1 has been released. All of the recompiled packages have passed our tests to our satisfaction. We do not expect the packages that we get from the upstream vendor to change. Although we see a few tweaks and changes before release candidate, these should all be minor. I believe we have made it past the last major hurdles. Changes since alpha 2: libguestfs - recompiled against a different repository so that it better matched our golden image; qemu-kvm - recompiled against several different repositories, our version does not require several libX libraries...." See the release announcement for full details. Download: SL-61-i386-2011-07-01-Install-DVD.iso (3,607MB, SHA256), SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-01-Install-DVD.iso (4,184MB, SHA256). On a related note, live images containing Scientific Linux 5.6 are now ready for testing.