2008-03-18: Update of all user accessible SL5 systems to release 5.1

Tonight, all SL5 desktops will receive the minor update to SL5.1. This is a normal procedure happening about twice a year.

We don't expect any problems due to this update. There is no need to reboot any systems.

SL Release Notes: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/SL.releasenote

Red Hat Release Notes: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html

Improvements at DESY Zeuthen rolled out with SL5.1 include:

• a new version of alpine, wrapped in a sheel script that should make non-ASCII characters work well under all Locales
• SELinux policy improvements fixing some problems with advanced filesystems liek panfs and lustre