HI folks, I heard SL sometimes but never test it. I ran Debian, RH, Fedora, CenOS, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. before and am still running some of them. What is the major difference of SL from other Linux distro? Thanks
B.R. SL ________________________________ From: Juergen Salk <juergen.s...@gmx.de> To: Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> Cc: debian-science@lists.debian.org Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 12:34:33 AM Subject: Re: Debian and Scientific Linux (was: Removal requests submitted for CERNLIB packages) * Juergen Salk <juergen.s...@gmx.de> [110305 15:46]: > > That they have Scientific Linux and are Open Source already > > is per se already quite remarkable. > [...] The main goal of Scientific Linux is *not* to be as > scientific as possible, e.g. in terms of the number of > scientific software packages included in the distribution. (As > a matter of fact, Debian comes with much, much more scientific > software packages than SL does). Just as an addendum in case someone is interested. This is a complete (!) list of scientific packages that come with Scientific Linux 6: jsalk@wattwurm:~> cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux release 6.0 (Carbon) jsalk@wattwurm:~> yum groupinfo 'Scientific support' Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Setting up Group Process Group: Scientific support Description: Tools for mathematical and scientific computations, and parallel computing. Default Packages: gnuplot units Optional Packages: atlas lapack mpich2 mpitests-mvapich mpitests-mvapich2 mpitests-openmpi mvapich mvapich2 numpy openmpi jsalk@wattwurm:~> That's it. It's simply what comes with RHEL6 anyway. They don't even have R in SL6 any more. So it is really a myth that Scientific Linux provides much extras for scientists. It's simply not their goal. It's all about compatibility with RHEL which makes SL so attractive as a common platform for huge computing environments. Best regards, Juergen -- GPG A997BA7A | 87FC DA31 5F00 C885 0DC3 E28F BD0D 4B33 A997 BA7A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110305163433.gb4...@levin.highx.de
