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Scientific Linux 5.7 Is Available for Download

It's now based on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.7 series

Sep 15, 2011 17:01 GMT  ·  By
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Connie Sieh announced last evening, September 14th, the immediate availability for download of the Scientific Linux 5.7 operating system, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

After the release of CentOS 5.7 two days ago, here comes Scientific Linux 5.7, a distribution based on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.7 series, put together by various universities and labs around the world.

Being based on RHEL 5 Update 7, the new Scientific Linux 5.7 brings improved support for updated Linux kernel modules for XFS, OpenAFS and NDISwrapper, updated Oracle Java to 6 Update 26, updated Intel wireless firmware, GNUPlot 4.2.6, Alpine 2.02, Aufs 20090202, or R 2.13.1.

Scientific Linux 5.7 also brings lots of other updated packages and numerous bugfixes. The following packages have been added in Scientific Linux 5.7, compared to RHEL 5.7:

· 915resolution 0.5.3-6; · Alpine 2.02-2; · AUFS 0.20090202.cvs-6; · CFITSIO 3.100-1; · DKMS 2.1.1.2-1; · dropit 1.2-1; · FFTW 3.1.2-5; · fuse-smb 0.8.7-1; · fuse-sshfs 2.2-1; · Graphviz 2.24.0; · IceWM 1.2.37; · Imlib 1.9.15-11; · Intel wireless firmware 1.3-5; · JAVA 1.6.0.16 Update 15; · KDEedu 3.5.4; · Lame 3.97-1; · Lua 5.1.2-1; · gstreamer-plugins-extras 0.10.9-2; · k3b-extras 0.12.17-3; · NDISwrapper 1.55-1; · NumPy 1.2.1-1; · OpenAFS 1.4.14; · R 2.13.1-1; · Ralink wireless firmware PCI 1.2-1; · Ralink wireless firmware USB 1.8-1; · Scipy 0.6.0-6; · Tidy 0.99.0-12.20070228; · suitesparse 3.1.0-1; · XFS 0.4-2; · Yumex 2.0.3-1.0; · gv 3.6.2-2.

For the complete changelog and the full list of updated packages, bugfixes and know limitations, please have 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 the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 series.

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