Scientific Linux 7.0 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Scientific Linux 7.0 Officially Released

The Scientific Linux community is finally out with the official release of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 re-spin...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxMzM

[GreatEmerald]

Awesome.

And no, CentOS changes a lot more components, and even more ever since their partnership with Red Hat. Meanwhile SL is pretty much vanilla RHEL.

[SyXbiT]

Awesome.

And no, CentOS changes a lot more components, and even more ever since their partnership with Red Hat. Meanwhile SL is pretty much vanilla RHEL.

You have that backwards

[Drago]

You have that backwards

Can you explain further?

[pipe13]

On another point, it is now four months after RHEL 7.0 went GA. Not knocking SL in anyway, but does anyone know if SL 7.0 iso is the same packages as RHEL 7.0 GA iso, or is the SL 7.0 iso an update spin? Thanks!

[pipe13]

While SL tries to stay very very very close to RHEL, they do have several quirky user base requirements (parse that as you will). At least two of them derive from SL catering to large multi-user systems in addition to workstations. And many of these users actually like/require easy access to command line terminals. So the SL gnome shell is default configured to have "open in terminal" in the right mouse-button menu. Not a biggie. Somewhat larger is their very large multi-user systems, which require andrew fs, which afaik is not part of the official RHEL distribution. The Fermilab-Cern folks have to qualify afs before they can release a new SL, which might explain part of the apparent "delay." There're probably a few more packages as well, but SL tries to keep their own extras to a minimum, making SL "as vanilla as possible but no more".

[You-]

Longer term, Centos and RHEL try to keep theior packagesets as close as to the versions at release especially keeping a stable API for all packages.


Scientific Linux mostly adheres to this, but will update desktop components to later versions.

[davidlt]

CERN is moving away from Scientific Linux. After CentOS became under Red Hat umbrella CERN created CentOS Special Interest Group (SIG).

http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/nextversion.shtml

http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/centos.shtml