[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 82, Issue 6

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Today's Topics:

   1. Release for CentOS-6.1 i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh)
   2. Release for CentOS-6.1 LiveCD i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh)
   3.  Release for CentOS-6.1 LiveDVD i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh)
   4. Release for CentOS-6.1 Minimal i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:09:53 +0000
From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.1 i386 and x86_64
To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
Message-ID: <4EE2A351.6000709 at centos.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.1
install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.1
are availble at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.1 -
we recommend everyone looks through those once.

CentOS-6.1 is based on the upstream release EL 6.1 and includes packages
from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into
one, to make it easier for end users to work with.

All machines running CentOS-Release-CR on 6.0 would already be running
code that is included in the 6.1 install media. We highly recommend
everyone use the CR repository in order to get all bugfix and security
updates as soon as possible. More information on the CR repository can
be found at : http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR


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Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5:

We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an
inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5


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Downloading CentOS-6.1 for new installs:

When possible, consider using torrents to run the downloads. In most
cases you will find its also the fastest means to download the distro.
There are currently over a thousand  people seeding CentOS-6 and it's
possible to get upto 100mbps downloads via these torrents.

Torrent files for the DVD's are available at :
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.1/isos/i386/CentOS-6.1-i386-bin-DVD1to2.torrent
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.1/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.1-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent

You can also use a mirror close to you :
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

Most mirrors will allow direct DVD downloads over http, ftp and rsync.

Please keep in mind that not all mirrors are currently updated, some
might take upto another 24 hours before they have all the content.

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sha1sum for the CentOS-6.1 ISOS:

i386:
2ef1eb330efeb8bca5646700481b1a645f726bdb  CentOS-6.1-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
e12d7f473fa7f13931738f3c37f57d99e66c2ff2  CentOS-6.1-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
b0163bcf2777b9c19542a89106094aafea45f3aa  CentOS-6.1-i386-netinstall.iso

x86_64:
6cf7de61f851bbdb6859ce0a33d65d9554219509  CentOS-6.1-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
7bfd52eaa5ada445982c3f528c1f481bbcda85c8  CentOS-6.1-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
2d0e5c3c91717996c7d3d35658f79ccac767b564  CentOS-6.1-x86_64-netinstall.iso
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Sources and Debuginfo packages:

SRPMS and debuginfo packages are still making their way to the CentOS
mirrors and should be available within the next 24 to 48 hours. We are
prioritising the centos modified packages. In order to speed up the
release process for these packages, we are releasing them directly into
vault.centos.org; this drastically reduces the amount of traffic
generated for the mirrors and makes it possible for us to publish them
in sync with the binary code.

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Getting Help:

The best place to start when looking for help with CentOS is at the wiki
( http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp ) which lists various options and
communities who might be able to help. If you think there is a bug in
the system, do report it at http://bugs.centos.org/ - but keep in mind
that the bugs system is *not* a support mechanism.

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Contributing and joining the project:

We are always looking for people to join and help with various things in
the project. If you are keen to help out a good place to start is the
wiki page at http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute . If you have questions
or a specific area you would like to contribute towards that is not
covered on that page, feel free to drop in on
#centos-devel at irc.freenode.net for a chat or email the centos-devel list
(http://lists.centos.org).

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Thanks to everyone who contributed towards making 6.1, specially the
enormous effort put in by everyone on the QA team.

Enjoy!

--
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
The CentOS Project {http://www.centos.org}
irc: z00dax at irc.freenode.net ( #centos, #centos-devel )


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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:17:14 +0000
From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.1 LiveCD i386 and
	x86_64
To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
Message-ID: <4EE2A50A.2090808 at centos.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.1
LiveCD for i386 and x86_64 architectures.

Detailed Release Notes are available at
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.1

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Overview

The CentOS-6.1 LiveCD is meant to be a Linux environment suited to be
run directly from either CD media or USB storage devices. It does not
need any persistent storage on a machine, which also makes it a suitable
recovery environment.

Due to space constraints, it was not possible to include all the
traditional desktop applications on the LiveCD. You can though enjoy a
Gnome basic desktop, view and modify pictures with gthumb, browsing the
web with Firefox, send emails with Thunderbird and connect to your
favorite Instant Messaging network with Pidgin

Note that the package manifest has changed slightly from the LiveCD6.0
release: Gimp has been removed and rdesktop,tigervnc,vinagre and
tsclient have been added.

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Download

SHA256SUMs :

12a5bfbc0e4cfa1ebf9733c71c3e541a75b74db457f261ed46039b5714b2fee3
CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveCD.iso

f9a9b245b7e5e45a7998ba91be8545dfaa738da771fa42ba91ecca5496f8f13f
CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveCD.iso

The CentOS-6.1 LiveCD is released to all external mirrors and available
for download now. List of mirrors is available at these urls :

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/

We have also published torrents for the CentOS-6.1 LiveCDs :
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveCD.torrent
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveCD.torrent

Once you download the images, its important to verify contents using the
sha256sum utility, against the published sums here.

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Notes

You can now install the Live environment to your hard disk (which wasn?t
possible with the 5.x Live medias). Please note that you need more that
512Mb of ram to be able to use that ?install to hard drive? feature (If
you have less than 512Mb of ram, you can install to disk but in
text-mode, meaning that instead of clicking on the desktop icon, you
have to launch a gnome-terminal and launch the ?liveinst? command from
within the terminal)

There is no upstream Live media product. The Live media produced within
the CentOS Project is based on and around the livemedia tools from the
Fedora Project.

These LiveCD?s only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.1
distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and
no package has been changed from whats included in the base distribution.

We appreciate all forms of feedback about these LiveCD, including
specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future
releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the
centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature
requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ).

Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD
efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues
and helped build, test and release these images.

-- 
Karanbir Singh
The CentOS Project
irc: z00dax, #centos at irc.freenode.net


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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:27:05 +0000
From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
Subject: [CentOS-announce]  Release for CentOS-6.1 LiveDVD i386 and
	x86_64
To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
Message-ID: <4EE2A759.5040204 at centos.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.1
LiveDVD for i386 and x86_64 architectures.

Detailed Release Notes are available at
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveDVD6.1

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Overview

The CentOS-6.1 LiveDVD is meant to be a Linux environment suited to be
run directly from either DVD media or USB storage devices. It does not
need any persistent storage on a machine, which also makes it a suitable
recovery environment.

The LiveDVDs are setup to run as full desktop environments and include
most of the applications used in this role.

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Download

SHA256SUMs :

f2ccfa6ead6ddf9c27ba14d240b1a422c9d7577c7a74320a5975f7a788715ddc
CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso

41910fdd51407c3bd329577891e25d24671568160b77876f44875fb87efe80e6
CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveDVD.iso

The CentOS-6.1 LiveDVD is released to all external mirrors and available
for download now. List of mirrors is available at these urls :

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/

Due to the size of these DVDs, torrents have also been released and are
being seeded at this time. The torrents are available at:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveDVD.torrent

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveDVD.torrent

Once you download the images, its important to verify contents using the
sha256sum utility, against the published sums here.

+++++++++++++++++++++++
Notes

You can now install the Live environment to your hard disk (which wasn?t
possible with the 5.x Live medias). Please note that you need more that
512Mb of ram to be able to use that ?install to hard drive? feature (If
you have less than 512Mb of ram, you can install to disk but in
text-mode, meaning that instead of clicking on the desktop icon, you
have to launch a gnome-terminal and launch the ?liveinst? command from
within the terminal)

There is no upstream Live media product. The Live media produced within
the CentOS Project is based on and around the livemedia tools from the
Fedora Project.

These LiveDVD only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.1
distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and
no package has been changed from whats included in the base  distribution.

We appreciate all forms of feedback about these LiveDVD, including
specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future
releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the
centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature
requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ).

Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD
efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues
and helped build, test and release these images.

-- 
Karanbir Singh
The CentOS Project
irc: z00dax, #centos at irc.freenode.net


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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:29:40 +0000
From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.1 Minimal i386 and
	x86_64
To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
Message-ID: <4EE2A7F4.9000003 at centos.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
CentOS-6.1/minimal for i386 and x86_64 Architectures.

The minimal install iso media is an alternative install to the main
CentOS-6.1 distribution and comes with a trimmed down, preselected rpm
list. However, it still runs off the standard installer, with all the
regular features that one would expect from the main distribution,
except the rpm selection screen has been disabled. Running an install
from this media will not allow you to change the rpms selected for install.

Release Notes for this media can be found at :
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSMinimalCD6.1

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Download

SHA256SUMs :

07a86e905f4c389eb92d4e5a04d0a2c4e583dbcbf2243781107273117b31628c
CentOS-6.1-i386-minimal.iso

971fb86182814c7a4e4712d37831a87a28611b5332af1efa6322b818ae6a0d48
CentOS-6.1-x86_64-minimal.iso

The ISO files are avilable at :

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/

Since the size for these files is relatively small, no torrent files are
being released.

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NOTES:

We have tried to test this install for most deployment roles, including
VMs and physical machines. And with lvm, mdraid, iscsi and dm-multipath
environments.

These images also contain the complete recovery and rescue environment
found in the main distribution.

You should be able to use these images from CD media, DVD media, USB
storage devices.

We do not recommend these images be used with kickstart files written
for the main CentOS distro images.

An install will setup yum to work with the regular default CentOS 6.1
repositories. Once the installed machine instace boots it should work
just like a regular CentOS machine, with only the bare minimal rpms
installed. All package management, networking and storage related
functionality should already be in place.

+++++++++++++++++++++++

There is no upstream Minimal media product.

These ISOs only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.1
distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and
no package has been changed from whats included in the base distribution.

We appreciate all forms of feedback about these images, including
specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future
releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the
centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature
requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ).

Special thanks to Manuel Wolfshant for requesting and then doing a lot
of the work to make the minimal disk images happen; And everyone on the
CentOS QA team who contributed their time and resources towards testing
these images.

Enjoy!

-- 
Karanbir Singh
The CentOS Project
irc: z00dax, #centos at irc.freenode.net



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