Scientific Linux 7.2 Distro Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 to Science Labs | Linux Today

Scientific Linux 7.2 Distro Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 to Science Labs

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Marius Nestor
Feb 6, 2016

The development cycle of Scientific Linux 7.2 tracked the one of the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 operating system, on which the project is based since it was born back in May 2004. The distro is in fact built from the freely distributed source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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