Scientific Linux 7.5 new version with the power of Red Hat

Scientific Linux is a recompiled distribution , jointly developed by Fermi Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research or as it is known to us, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).Scientific Linux 7.4

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 Kit (JDK), μαζί με το lightweight IceWM window manager. Διαθέτει την R – μια γλώσσα για statistical computing, καθώς και το Alpine email .

The new version, it seems, started to develop as soon as Red Hat, announced general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 is the latest update of the distribution Linux for businesses. Of course every release of RHEL is considered a big event, due to the slow development cycle adopted by the .

What is the SL 7.5 version?

The sl-release has been upgraded to show 7.5 repos.

OpenAFS has been upgraded to version 1.6.22.3
The kmod was upgraded along with the 7.5 security kernel.
Finally the problems that caused crashes in Anaconda
And NetworkManager.i686 is no longer included in the SL7.

You can read the entire change log from the following link:

http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=3746

Those interested can download the ISO from the distribution server

[ICO] Name Last modified Size

[] README 27-Nov-2017 08: 31 671
[TXT] README.html 27-Nov-2017 08: 39 5.4K
[ISO] Scientific-7.5-Everything-x86_64.iso 02-May-2018 11: 17 8.1G
[ISO] Scientific-7.5-Install-Dual-Layer-DVD-x86_64.iso 02-May-2018 12: 21 7.0G
[] SHA1SUM 02-May-2018 12: 36 300
[] SHA1SUM.gpgsigned 02-May-2018 12: 38 545
[] SHA256SUM 02-May-2018 12: 37 396
[] SHA256SUM.gpgsigned 02-May-2018 12: 38 641
[ISO] SL-7-DVD-x86_64.iso 02-May-2018 12: 21 7.0G
[ISO] SL-7.5-x86_64-netinst.iso 01-May-2018 16: 05 529M

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