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2015-04-09

CERN Centos 7.1 becomes default production CC7 release.

Dear Linux users.

We have a pleasure to announce that updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

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        CC 7.1 becomes default CC7 production version
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                  as of Thursday 09.04.2015

For information about CC71, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

What happened to Scientific Linux CERN (SLC) ?

  • SLC 6 and SLC5 remain supported Linux versions at CERN
  • Next major release: 7 is based on CentOS

please see: http://cern.ch/linux/nextversion for more information.

Updating CERN CentOS 7.0 to 7.1:

All updates are released to production repositories as of 09.04.2015, in order to update your system please run as root:

# yum clean all # yum update

Jaroslaw Polok for Linux.Support@cern.ch

2015-04-01

CC71 - CERN CentOS 7.1 available.

Dear Linux users.

We would like to announce immediate availability of next CERN Linux release:

            CC71: CERN CentOS 7.1

For information about CC71, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

What happened to Scientific Linux CERN (SLC) ?

  • SLC 6 and SLC5 remain supported Linux versions at CERN
  • Next major release: 7 is based on CentOS

please see: http://cern.ch/linux/nextversion for more information.

Updating CERN CentOS 7.0 to 7.1:

All updates will be released to production repositories on 09.04.2015, after that date running as root on your system:

# yum update

will update it to version 7.1.

In order to test the update before 09.04.2015, run as root on your system:

# yum update # yum --enablerepo=cr update

Jaroslaw Polok for Linux.Support@cern.ch