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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@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.1 i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS Announcements List centos-announce@centos.org Message-ID: 4EE2A351.6000709@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

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

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.to... http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.1/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.1-x86_64-bin-DVD1to...

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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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@irc.freenode.net for a chat or email the centos-devel list (http://lists.centos.org).

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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@centos.org The CentOS Project {http://www.centos.org%7D irc: z00dax@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@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.1 LiveCD i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS Announcements List centos-announce@centos.org Message-ID: 4EE2A50A.2090808@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

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.torre...

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 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.