Gazing at Scientific Linux

“A little while ago someone requested I write a review of
Scientific Linux. Intrigued, but not yet motivated, I invited
people to write to me and tell me what they found interesting about
Scientific. I got a bit more feedback than I’d expected and nearly
all of it in favour of the distribution. Apparently several readers
find Scientific a good OS for their machines at home and run it on
everything from servers, to desktops, to netbooks…. everything
except the family toaster. Honestly, I was a bit surprised.
Scientific Linux has always struck me as a distro which is aimed at
a small community of researchers, finding a quiet niche in the dark
server rooms of laboratories. I stand corrected. With a new found
curiosity, I ventured over to scientificlinux.org.

“The project’s website is a simple display of black and white in
a Wiki style. The site is fairly quiet, almost sparse in its
presentation. Nonetheless, navigation around the site is
straightforward and I found that the latest version, 5.4, comes in
Intel 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. This latest release came out in
November and is supported through until 2012. The distribution is
supplied on a series of eight installation CDs or two DVDs. It’s
also available as a live CD, which I decided to use for my test
drive.”

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