On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Bill Thoen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/3/2011 10:13 PM, MJang wrote: >> Folks, >> >> FWIW, with little fanfare, Scientific Linux 6.0 was released today. >> Hasn't even shown up on my Linux newsfeeds yet. It's the "rebuild" of >> Red Hat Enterpri se Linux 6, built from Red Hat source code. > What makes it "scientific"? It doesn't believe in faith-based coding? > ;-/)/
Actually, if you take a look at the recent direction RHEL has been taking in their kernel patches, you're not too far off: http://lwn.net/Articles/430600/ But seriously, SL exists basically as a recompilation of RHEL (from source) done by Fermi Labs, Cern, et al. It effectively is very much like CentOS, except geared more towards use in Scientifically minded institutions. For the most part, like CentOS they remain compatible with upstream. The one major customization they do make is the ability to create these things called "sites", which can sort of be thought of as one-off forks where you might need to make some sort of in-house modification to the core distro (see https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/customize). In that regard, you can think of SL as a base-distro from which you could build a custom distro from. ---Sam _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
