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Scientific Linux

Last Update: 2018-12-04 11:43 UTC

Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in the upstream product; the most notable among these are various file systems, including Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs, wireless networking support with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper, Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), the lightweight IceWM window manager, R - a language and environment for statistical computing, and the Alpine email client.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 77 (148), 6 months: 64 (165), 3 months: 76 (168), 4 weeks: 39 (295), 1 week: 53 (214)

Average visitor rating: 7.36/10 from 11 review(s).


Scientific Summary
Distribution Scientific Linux
Home Page https://www.scientificlinux.org/
Mailing Lists https://www.scientificlinux.org/community/
User Forums http://scientificlinuxforum.org/
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Documentation https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases, download links and checksums:
 • 2018-12-04: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.6
 • 2018-07-11: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.10
 • 2018-05-12: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.5
 • 2017-04-17: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.9
 • 2017-01-26: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.3
 • 2016-02-06: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.2
 • 2015-08-27: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.7
 • 2015-04-14: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.1
 • 2014-11-13: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 6.6
 • 2014-10-14: Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.0
 • 2014-07-26: Development Release: Scientific Linux 7.0 Beta 1
 • 2014-07-04: Development Release: Scientific Linux 7 Alpha
 • More Scientific releases...

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Feature 7.6 6.10 5.11 4.8 3.0.9
Release Date 2018-12-03 2018-07-10 2014-11-13 2009-07-21 2007-11-18
End Of Life 2024-06 2020-11 2017-03    
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 500-10000 200-6000      
Free Download ISO ISO ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME GNOME
Package Management RPM RPM RPM RPM RPM
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice OO.o* OO.o* OO.o*
Processor Architecture x86_64 i386, x86_64 i386, x86_64 i386, x86_64 i386, x86_64
Init Software systemd Upstart SysV SysV SysV
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3 ext3 ext3
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes cn, jp, kr, tw cn, jp, kr, tw
Full Package List 7.6 6.10 5.11 4.8 3.0.9
Package 7.6 6.10 5.11 4.8 3.0.9
abiword (3.0.2) -- -- -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.1.7) 1.1.6 1.1.0 1.0.17 1.0.6 --
ati-driver (18.30) -- -- -- -- --
bash (4.4.18) 4.2 4.1 3.1 3.0 2.05b
bind (9.13.5) 9.9.4 9.8.2rc1 9.3.6-P1 9.2.4 9.2.4
chromium (71.0.3578.98) -- -- -- -- --
cups (2.2.10) 1.6.3 1.4.2 1.3.7 1.1.22rc1 1.1.17
dhcp (4.4.1) 4.2.5 4.1.1-P1 3.0.5 3.0.1 3.0.1
e2fsprogs (1.44.4) 1.42.9 1.41.12 1.39 1.35 1.32
firefox (64.0) 60.3.0 52.8.0 24.8.0 3.0.11 --
freetype (2.9.1) 2.8 2.3.11 2.2.1 2.1.9 2.1.4
gcc (8.2.0) 4.8.5 4.4.7 4.1.2 3.4.6 3.2.3
gimp (2.10.8) 2.8.22 2.6.9 2.2.13 2.0.5 1.2.3
glibc (2.28) 2.17 2.12 2.5 2.3.4 2.3.2
gnome-shell (3.30.2) 3.28.3 -- -- -- --
gnucash (3.3) -- -- -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.44) -- -- -- -- --
grub (2.02) 2.02 0.97 0.97 0.95 0.93
gtk+ (3.24.2) 3.22.30 2.24.23 2.10.4 2.4.13 2.2.4
httpd (2.4.37) 2.4.6 2.2.15 2.2.3 2.0.52 2.0.46
inkscape (0.92.3) 0.92.2 0.47 -- -- --
k3b (18.12.0) 2.0.2 1.0.5 0.12.17 0.11.14 --
kmod (25) 20 -- -- -- --
krita (4.1.7) -- -- -- -- --
libreoffice (6.1.3) 5.3.6 4.3.7 3.1.1* 1.1.5* 1.1.2*
linux (4.19.9) 3.10 2.6.32 2.6.18 2.6.9 2.4.21
Package 7.6 6.10 5.11 4.8 3.0.9
lxpanel (0.9.3) -- -- -- -- --
mariadb (10.3.11) 5.5.60 -- -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.20.3) -- -- -- -- --
mesa (18.3.1) 18.0.5 11.0.7 6.5.1 -- --
mysql (8.0.13) -- 5.1.73 5.0.95 4.1.22 3.23.58
nautilus (3.30.5) 3.26.3.1 2.28.4 2.16.2 2.8.1 2.2.4
NVIDIA (415.18) -- -- -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- -- -- --
openjdk (10.0.2) 11.0 8u171 1.7.0 -- --
openssh (7.9p1) 7.4p1 5.3p1 4.3p2 3.9p1 3.6.1p2
openssl (1.1.1a) 1.0.2k 1.0.1e 0.9.8b 0.9.7a 0.9.7a
perl (5.28.0) 5.16.3 5.10.1 5.8.8 5.8.5 5.8.0
php (7.3.0) 5.4.16 5.3.3 5.1.6 4.3.9 4.3.2
plasma-desktop (5.14.4) -- -- -- -- --
postfix (3.3.2) 2.10.1 2.6.6 2.3.3 2.2.10 2.0.16
postgresql (11.1) 9.2.24 8.4.20 8.1.23 7.4.19 7.3.19
Python (3.7.1) 2.7.5 2.6.6 2.4.3 2.3.4 2.2.3
qt (5.12.0) 5.9.2 4.6.2 3.3.6 3.3.3 3.1.2
samba (4.9.3) 4.8.3 3.6.23 3.0.33 3.0.33 3.0.9
systemd (239) 219 -- -- -- --
thunderbird (60.3.3) 60.2.1 52.8.0 -- 1.5.0.12 --
vim (8.1) 7.4 7.4 7.0 6.3.046 6.3.046
vlc (3.0.4) -- -- -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.12.4) -- -- -- -- --
xorg-server (1.20.3) 1.20.1 1.17.4 1.1.1 (6.8.2) --

Reader Ratings
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Average rating
7.4
from 11 review(s)


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Version: 7.5
Rating: 2
Date: 2018-07-15
Votes: 5


 VERY slow and unreliable, real basic copy of Red Hat.
To big they need to do a lot of clean up work.


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Version: 7.5
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-05-24
Votes: 8


 Not as stable/solid as it should be. I used the distro for about 6 months. Here's my experience in a nutshell:

*First and foremost: updating 7.4 to 7.5 was a real pain.

*Networking: Was not compatible with my built-in BCM43XX (I was kind of expecting that though, since most distros I have tried are not), what I *wasn't* expecting is that the USB modems of the TPLINK TL series are also not supported. I finally made it with an Edimax EW-7811Un, but the network was always VERY slow and unreliable.

*Filesystem: Its XFS implementation gets easily corrupted after e.g. a power shortage. Made my life very difficult since it corrupted many of my Yum packages, which in turns makes your life difficult for an upgrade.

*Compatibility: One would assume that Fedora/RedHat/CentOS packages are at least partially compatible. That is rarely the case. I increasingly found myself having to build software from source.

My honest overall advice would be: feel free to try, but use something else for daily tasks.


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Version: 6.9
Rating: 6
Date: 2017-10-24
Votes: 0


 Windows user learning Linux, rating reflects my deficit in knowledge of setting up to mimic Windows systems. Applications for windows are easy to install and to identify. Second, my use of NVIDIA Graphics Card and drivers are not supported. Still, as a student of Linux Systems it is a platform that mimics Red Hat commands well.

Thank You.


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