| Scientific Linux project releases v4.5 install CD |
Jul. 02, 2007
The Scientific Linux project last week announced the release of Scientific Linux 4.5, an install-only distribution rebuilt from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It features a 2.6.18 kernel, GNOME default desktop, multilingual support, and Xen paravirtual guest capabilities.
"This release took a little longer because of changes in the installer," team members Connie Sieh and Troy Dawson wrote in the release announcement. "Although you cannot use Scientific Linux 4.5 as a Xen virtual host, it can now be installed as a Xen paravirtual guest. This gives a significant speed increase over fully virtualized guests."
It should be possible to upgrade from Scientific Linux 3.0.x via the anaconda installer, Sieh and Dawson said. Yum is known to not work, they added.
Software package upgrades, according to the team, include:- 2.6.18 Linux kernel
- Evolution 2.8.0 mail/address book/calendar
- GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor
- GNOME 2.16.0 desktop
- OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 office suite
- Firefox 1.5.0.10 browser
The U.S.- and Swiss-based Scientific Linux project was developed by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs and to have a common install base for the various experimenters, the project said.
The base SL distribution is essentially Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), recompiled from source. The project's aims to have everything compatible with RHEL, with only a few minor additions or changes.
You can download Scientific Linux from the project's mirrors listed here. A direct download of the live CD images for both x86 and x86_64 machines is available here.
You may view some screenshots, courtesy of The Coding Studio, here.
Scientific Linux also has version 5.0 release, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sources, available as a live CD.
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