Scientific Linux
Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with .
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
Although still supported, Fermilab has discontinued Scientific Linux: https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE;11d6001.1904
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- scientific
- red-hat
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What is Scientific Linux?
Scientific Linux is a recompiled 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in the upstream product; the most notable among these are various file systems, including Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs, wireless networking support with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper, Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), the lightweight IceWM window manager, R - a language and environment for statistical computing, and the Alpine email client.
Comments and Reviews
All versions of Scientific Linux are very slow in updating even the most important packages. Not good for my usage. Might be good for you...
There's little doubt that scientists exist who will benefit from this distro. There should be absolutely no doubt that scientists exist who understand absolutely nothing about how this distro could help them. I'm one of them. It's hard then to accept that this is Scientific Linux. It's perhaps Linux For Some Physicists. Nothing against it; but it's a misleading name. It's as much a distro for all scientists as some physics is all of science. Is that a complaint? Yeah. Yeah it is.
I can anticipate a possible reply: all science reduces to fundamental physics. Yes, that's true. But I am a scientist who can do things physicists can't. Or could Feynmann have synthesized Taxol? QED, as he might say. ;-) (Or is the synthesis of Taxol not scientific? In which case, how very dare you!)