Scientific Linux is a recompiled distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, developed jointly by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Nuclear Research Organization or, as we know, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Scientific Linux is relatively unknown, but it is one of the best clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Its name, though it shows that it is only for scientists, is unfair. Naturally, distribution is not only scientists, it took it because its development and maintenance are done by scientific organizations.
Although the distribution aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in RHEL. The most notable of these are various file systems, such as Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS). , FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs. Supports wireless networking with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper. It comes with Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), along with the lightweight IceWM window manager. It has R - a language for statistical computing, as well as the Alpine email client.
The announcement of the updated versionstates:
"THE disc 4,7 GB installation of Scientific Linux 7.3 is no longer available. We have kept the dual-layer installation disk We have kept the 'Everything' image, which exceeds the size of the dual-layer, but contains all the packages. OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.20. There is a new Scientific Linux End User License Agreement or EULA. The new EULA includes additional information about the US government contract under which Fermilab develops Scientific Linux. The Scientific Linux context plugin has been modified to be less aggressive in using network resources.”
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Scientific Linux 7.3 Release Notes
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