Scientific Linux 5.7 Is Available for Download | Linux Today

Scientific Linux 5.7 Is Available for Download

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2011

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“Connie Sieh announced, 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.”


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