Scientific Linux 7.0 RC2 Is Ready For Testing

Written by Michael Larabel in Red Hat on 3 October 2014 at 08:16 PM EDT. Add A Comment
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For those seeking Scientific's re-spin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, it should soon be coming with today marking the availability of Scientific Linux 7.0 RC2.

Pat Riehecky on the behalf of Fermilab and others announced Scientific Linux 7.0 x86_64 Release Candidate 2 as the latest available for testing -- months after RHEL 7.0 shipped along with CentOS 7.0, Oracle Linux 7.0, etc.

Pat Rieheck remarked, "we continue to develop a stable process for generating and distributing Scientific Linux, with the intent that Scientific Linux remains the same high quality operating system the community has come to expect."

Since Scientific 7.0 RC1 were fixes to the SL release version varialbe for Yum repositories and an update to Scientific links within their HTML documentation.
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