[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.6 is released for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64

Robert kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 16 18:46:01 UTC 2007



James A. Peltier wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS
>> 4.6 for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x and ia64.
>>
>> It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent, see this
>> link to download ISOs:
>>
>> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.6/isos/
>>
>> This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U6 release.  Also
>> released in the updates repository for CentOS-4.6 are all updates
>> through December 15th, 2007.
>>
>> The work for the i386 and x86_64 ServerCDs is in progress.
>>
>> If you are currently using another version CentOS-4 version, using this
>> command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.6:
>>
>> yum update
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Major changes for this version are:
>>
>>  * samba has been updated to version 3.0.25b. This addresses several
>> critical issues affecting interoperability with Windows 2003™ and
>> Windows Vista™ (resolved in recent upstream releases).
>>
>>  * autofs5 is included in this release as a Technology Preview. This new
>> version of autofs resolves several long-standing interoperability issues
>> in multi-vendor environments.
>>
>>  * There is a technology preview of OpenOffice-2.0 included in the
>> updates directory.  You can install this OOo2 preview alongside the
>> current OOo-1.1.5 version, or you may install the OOo2 preview alone.
>> We apologize that this was not included on the ISOs, however it was not
>> on the upstream ISOs and we followed that layout.  To List the new
>> OpenOffice-2.0 RPMS with yum use this command:
>>
>>        yum search openoffice.org2 | grep i386 | grep -v langpack
>>
>>    For finding Language Packs (if you want other than English) do:
>>
>>        yum search openoffice.org2 | grep langpack
>>
>>    Use "yum install <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>" to install the packages
>> that you want, or "yum info <pkg_name1> <pkg_name2>" to obtain more
>> information about them.
>>
>> * A new yum included in CentOS-4.6 requires the installation of
>> yum-metadata-parser.  The yum-metadata-parser package contains a
>> metadata parser for yum written in C. It speeds up the metadata parsing
>> phase of yum considerably and does not change yum behavior in any 
>> other way.
>>
>> Please see the CentOS specific release notes here (or in the main
>> directory on your install media):
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.6/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
>>
>> detailed upstream release notes here (and in the /NOTES directory on
>> your install media):
>> http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U6-en.html 
>>
>>
>> CentOS-4 Documentation is here:
>> http://www.centos.org/docs/4/
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> All previous released CentOS versions are available at:
>> http://vault.centos.org/
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To stay current with CentOS:
>>
>> Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to
>> catch up.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>
>> The CentOS Development Team
>>
>>
>>
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> There will still be a CentOS 5.1 release soon to though right?
Wrong tense. 

I have before me the CentOS 5.1 Release Notes, 8 pages of goodness 
printed 12/3/2007.




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