Scientific Linux 5.1 Released

Scientific Linux 5.1 was made available on mirrors worldwide and it comes with a very interesting feature: the ability to easily make sites (customized Scientific Linux distributions), compared to the previous release: "Scientific Linux 5.1 is finally out. This release has the ability to easily make sites (customized Scientific Linux distributions). The ability to make sites was missing from SL 5.0. We also managed to add back some of those packages that didn't make it into SL 5.0, as well as a few packages new for this release. As always we want to thank everyone who has helped with the creation of this release. Thank you to all those who contributed packages, gave us patches, found bugs, tested, and gave us encouragement. We've said it before, and it is still true, the Scientific Linux community is great to work with."

The following tools were added, compared to Scientific Linux Enterprise 5.1:

￭ 915resolution (a tool to modify Intel graphics chipsets video BIOS)
￭ alpine (a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages)
￭ cfitsio (Flexible Image Transport System support)
￭ dropit
￭ FUSE (Filesystem in userspace)
￭ Graphviz (Graph Visualization Tools)
￭ IceWM (Simple window manager)
￭ Intel wireless firmware (Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 and 2200 driver)
￭ JAVA 1.5
￭ madwifi (Atheros G wireless drivers)
￭ Multimedia codecs (gstreamer, lame, id3tag, mad, etc)
￭ ndiswrapper (Wireless cards drivers)
￭ nedit (GUI text editor)
￭ NumPy (Numeric replacement)
￭ OpenAFS
￭ R (language and environment for statistical computing and graphics)
￭ r1000 (RealTek Ethernet controllers driver)
￭ Yumex (graphical user interface for yum)
￭ Tidy
...and many many more!

About Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux is a distribution put together by various 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.

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