> The most attractive aspect of SL is that it has very long term > support; FermiLabs is still providing package updates for > installations running SL3 ( RHEL3). Some very big compute > jobs run on superclusters for years - they don't stop them > to upgrade distros. The down side is that you don't get > the latest/greatest hardware drivers with this approach. > RHEL5 / SL5 resembles Fedora Core 6 . However, if you are > running server/desktop hardware, or older laptops, this will > work just fine.
rhel 3 is still being supported by redhat as well. they will be supporting it until oct 31, 2010. http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ and it looks like sl will be following the same timelines: https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
