[CentOS-devel] 5.2 Dates

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> Tim Verhoeven wrote:
>>>> Anyway, when can we expect the first packages to be build ? I'm
>>>> planning on setting up 2 VM's (one for i386, one for x86_64) to give
>>>> all build packages a first test, and when all packages are ready let
>>>> the rest of the QA'ers loose on them.
>>>
>>> I'll start pushing built packages around 1am UTC Sat 24th.
>>
>> Where might the anxious find these? I have an sl5 (another RHEL5 clone) 
>> system that's next to useless as there's no adequate support for graphics. 
>> I'd like to try 5.2 before I try it as a boat anchor.
>>
>
> There is a a ALPHA of SL 5.2 for i386 available at
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/
>
> There should be x86_64 version available at
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64
>
> soon.
>
> -Connie Sieh

To the parent poster.. if you're just wanting to test for better
graphics support, why not use an eval copy of RHEL 5.2 vs an Alpha of
SL?

(If you're needing to test *now* vs in a week or two)

Ray