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| 2011-03-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.0 |
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Troy Dawson has announced the final release of Scientific Linux 6.0, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, but with extra software for use in academic environments. "Scientific Linux 6.0 has been released for both the i386 and x86_64 architectures." Some of the changes and features in this release include "The final release only has the same packages that were originally released by upstream vendor, all security and bug-fix errata are in their respective repositories; we have reduced the number of extra packages we put in Scientific Linux 6; there is no 'contrib' repository; we have added several packages to Scientific Linux that are not found anywhere in the upstream release, including IceWM, OpenAFS, Revisor, Live USB Creator, YUM auto-update, external YUM repositories..." Read the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. Download: SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Install-DVD.iso (3,508MB, SHA256), SL-60-x86_64-2011-03-03-Install-DVD.iso (4,040MB, SHA256).
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| About Scientific
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| Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat 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, 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.
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| 2013-04-20 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.4 "Live" |
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Urs Beyerle has announced the availability of live CD and DVD images with the recently released Scientific Linux 6.4: "Scientific Linux 6.4 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released. They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit systems and come with following window managers: LiveMiniCD - IceWM, LiveCD - GNOME, LiveDVD - GNOME, KDE, IceWM. Software was added from RPMForge, EPEL and ELRepo to include additional file system support (NTFS, ReiserFS), secure network connection (OpenVPN, VPNC, PPTP), file system tools (dd_rescue, ddrescue, GParted, gDisk), and better multimedia support (GStreamer, FFmpeg, Flash plugin). Software: Linux kernel 2.6.32, X.Org Server 1.13.0, GNOME 2.28, Firefox 17.0.5, IceWM 1.2.37, LibreOffice 3.4.5, KDE 4.3.4." More details in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): SL-64-x86_64-LiveCD.iso (695MB), SL-64-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso (2,348MB), SL-64-x86_64-LiveMiniCD.iso (496MB). |
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| 2013-03-28 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.4 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the release of Scientific Linux 6.4, a distribution built from source package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and enhanced with software suitable for use in scientific and academic environments: "Scientific Linux 6.4 is officially released. The OpenAFS kernel module package has changed - with SL 6.0 we started packaging the OpenAFS client's kernel module according to the guidelines from TUV's Driver Update Program. Due to unanticipated changes with the 6.3 kernel, we've had to revisit the process. With the 6.4 release, we modified the packaging to provide a dedicated build of the module for each minor SL release, instead of one kernel module (kmod) for all SL6 kernels. Since the EL kernel ABI is supposed to be kept stable within a minor release, this should avoid the problems some SL users experienced." Read the rest of the release announcement for other important notes. Download: SL-64-x86_64-Install-DVD.iso (4,142MB, SHA256), SL-64-i386-Install-DVD.iso (3,510MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-08-27 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.3 "Live" |
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Urs Beyerle has announced the release of live CD and DVD images for Scientific Linux 6.3: "Scientific Linux 6.3 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released. They are available in 32-bit and 64-bit variants and come with following window managers: LiveMiniCD - IceWM; LiveCD - GNOME; LiveDVD - GNOME, KDE, IceWM. Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE) to include additional file system support (NTFS, ReiserFS), secure network connection (OpenVPN, VPNC, PPTP), file system tools (dd_rescue, ddrescue, GParted, gDisk), and better multimedia support (FFmpeg, Flash). Changes since 6.2: add boot parameter eject which ejects CD/DVD at shutdown." See the full release announcement for more details. Links to download the live CD and DVD images: SL-63-i386-LiveCD.iso (698MB, SHA256), SL-63-i386-LiveDVD.iso (2,308MB, SHA256), SL-63-x86_64-LiveCD.iso (695MB, SHA256), SL-63-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso (2,348MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-08-08 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.3 |
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Connie Sieh has announced the release of Scientific Linux 6.3, an enterprise-class distribution built from source package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3: "Scientific Linux 6.3 i386/x86_64 is now available. Release notes: OpenAFS updated to version 1.6.1; yum-conf-rpmfusion has been added by popular request, end users must verify their own eligibility and license compliance before use; yum-conf-sl6x - updated GPG key list, CERN's key is now listed here too; xorg-x11-server changed to remove TUV's support URL; sl-bookmarks now includes links to useful non-SL provided resources; revisor support has been added for the upstream changes in Anaconda; sl-revisor-configs - the Kickstart files provided have been renamed for simplicity...." See the release announcement for a full list of changes. Download: SL-63-i386-Install-DVD.iso (3,482MB, SHA256), SL-63-x86_64-Install-DVD.iso (4,112MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-07-19 |
Development Release: Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the availability of the first beta version of Scientific Linux 6.3, a distribution built from source packages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and enhanced with extra applications useful in academic environments: "There should be no expectation that a 'yum' upgrade to SL 6.3 will work. A new install is the recommended method to move from 'sl6rolling'(this alpha release) and the released 'SL 6.3'. Major changes the upstream vendor made: LibreOffice - OpenOffice.org has been replaced with LibreOffice. The LibreOffice packages 'provide' the right packages to maintain compatibility for Kickstart and yum installs; Anaconda - Anaconda now alerts users to the beta status of a release when it is tagged appropriately, upstream has added this functionality and we are taking advantage of it for the beta cycle...." Read the full release announcement. Download the DVD images: SL-6.3-i386-DVD.iso (3,464MB, SHA), SL-6.3-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,093MB, SHA).
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| 2012-04-24 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 5.8 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the release of Scientific Linux 5.8, a distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and enhanced with extra software and tools useful in academic environments: "We would like to announce the immediate availability of Scientific Linux 5.8." Besides upstream updates some of the changes compared to version 5.7 include: "Intel wireless firmware (ucode) updated to a more current version; Java updated to the latest security package; the 1.4.14 release of OpenAFS, this version fixes a minor locking bug; Ralink wireless firmware updated to a more current version; yum-utils updated to current version; lsb_release -a now reports the same as SL6...." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: SL.58.041912.DVD.i386.disc1.iso (4,195MB, MD5), SL.58.041912.DVD.x86_64.disc1.iso (4,170MB, MD5).
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| 2012-02-17 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 "Live" |
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Urs Beyerle has announced that, following the recent release of Scientific Linux 6.2, live images with the distribution are now also available: "Scientific Linux 6.2 live CD, live mini CD and live DVD are officially released. They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and come with following desktop or window managers: live mini CD - IceWM, live CD - GNOME, live DVD - GNOME, KDE, IceWM. Changes since 6.1 Live: software based on Scientific Linux 6.2; kmod-ndiswrapper removed; system-config-printer added; gDisk added; Flash plugin installer by default. Software: Linux kernel 2.6.32, X.Org Server 1.7.7, IceWM 1.2.37, GNOME 2.28, Firefox 3.6.26, Thunderbird 3.1.18, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, KDE 4.3.4. Read the complete release announcement for additional details. Quick links to download the live CD and DVD images: SL-62-i386-LiveCD.iso (695MB, SHA256), SL-62-i386-LiveDVD.iso (2,287MB, SHA256), SL-62-x86_64-LiveCD.iso (699MB, SHA256), SL-62-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso (2,327MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-02-15 |
Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the release of Scientific Linux 6.2, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and enhanced with extra software for use in scientific and academic environments: "Scientific Linux 6.2 is now available for download. Differences from 6.1: Anaconda - added the Scientific Linux install classes, DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed; OpenAFS updated to version 1.6.0, this packages includes a patch to disable NAT pings to avoid a race condition; livecd-tools and liveusb-creator updated from upstream to version 13.4; sl-release - removed Troy Dawson's GPG key, added CERN's GPG, added EULA; yum-autoupdate has had PRERUN and POSTRUN scripts added for more flexibility; the yum-conf-* packages now require yum-fastestmirror by popular request.... See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download: SL-62-i386-2012-02-06-Install-DVD.iso (3,600MB, SHA256), SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06-Install-DVD.iso (4,213MB, SHA256).
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| 2012-02-01 |
Development Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 RC1 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Scientific Linux 6.2, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and enhanced with extra applications useful in academic environments: "Scientific Linux 6.2 Release Candidate 1 i386/x86_64 is now available for testing. Differences from version 6.1: Anaconda - added the Scientific Linux install classes, DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed; OpenAFS - updated to version 1.6.0-97, this packages includes a patch to disable NAT pings to avoid a race condition; livecd-tools, liveusb-creator - updated from upstream to version 13.4, added support for Scientific Linux 6.2; redhat-rpm-config - changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an enterprise Linux; sl-release - added CERN's GPG...." Here is the full release announcement. Download the installation DVD images from here: SL-62-i386-2012-01-31-Install-DVD.iso (3,600MB, SHA256), SL-62-x86_64-2012-01-31-Install-DVD.iso (4,213MB, SHA256).
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