Initial pre-elease

This is the initial pre-release supporting the following operating systems:

• RHEL/CentOS 5.8-6.x
• Fedora 18,19,20
• Debian 6,7
• Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), 12.04 (Precise), 12.10 (Quantal), 13.04 (Raring), 13.10 (Saucy)