Scientific Linux 5.3 Has Better Support for Intel Wireless

Troy Dawson and Connie Sieh announced last evening the immediate availability of Scientific Linux 5.3, a Linux distribution put together by various universities and labs around the world. Being based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.3, the new release of Scientific Linux brings improved support for Intel wireless cards, lots of updated packages and numerous bug fixes.

"We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. We say that every time, but we really mean it. Without everyone's help and testing, this release wouldn't be as good as it is." - said the Scientific Linux team in the official release announcement.

Let's have a closer look now at the main packages that were updated in Scientific Linux 5.3:

· 915resolution 0.5.3-6
· Alpine 2.00-2
· AUFS 0.20090202.cvs-6
· Cfitsio 3.100-1
· DKMS 2.0.17.4-1.9
· Dropit 1.2-1
· FFTW3 3.1.2-5
· FUSE 2.6.3-1
· Graphviz 2.18-3
· IceWM 1.2.37-1
· Sun's Java JDK 1.6.0
· MadWiFi 0.9.4-15
· LAME 3.97-1
· TagLib 1.4
· NDISwrapper 1.53
· NumPy 1.2.1-1
· OpenAFS 1.4.7-68.1
· R 2.8.1-1
· Scipy 0.6.0-6
· Suitesparse 3.1.0-1
· Tidy 0.99.0-12.20070228
· XFS 0.4-2
· xfsprogs 2.9.4-1
· Yumex 2.0.3

For a complete list of updated packages and bug fixes, take a look at the official release notes.

About Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux is a distribution put together by miscellaneous universities and labs around the world. It was created to reduce the duplicated effort of the labs and as an install base for the numerous experimenters. Scientific Linux is actually an Enterprise Linux, built from sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.3.

Download Scientific Linux 5.3 right now from Softpedia.