Hi, With a little delay I can announce the release of Scientific Linux 5.7 LiveCD/DVD.
Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.7 can now be downloaded for 32 and 64 bit: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/57/i386 ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/57/x86_64 Public mirrors of Scientific Linux 5.7 LiveCD/DVD can be found here https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors Please note that the SL 5.7 LiveCD/DVD were built with the old build environment used for all SL 4.x SL 5.x LiveCD/DVD releases so far. For more information see http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build_sl4_sl5.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Linux 5.7 Live CD and DVD (32bit and 64bit) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. It is based on Scientific Linux 5.7 (SL57), which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 sources (RHEL5). The following versions of the Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD are available for download: - livecd: CD-ROM for 32bit - livecd64: CD-ROM for 64bit - livedvd: DVD-ROM for 32bit - livedvd64: DVD-ROM for 64bit - mini_livecd: Mini CD-ROM for 32bit - mini_livecd64: Mini CD-ROM for 64bit Features - LiveCD can be installed to local hard disk - LiveCD runs from USB key - Changes can be stored persistently on an external device - LiveCD can be mounted over NFS (diskless client) Software - kernel 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 - openAFS client 1.4.14 - xorg 7.1 - alsa sound lib 1.0.17 - gnome 2.16.0 (standard desktop) - gimp 2.2.13 - openoffice.org 3.1.1 - firefox 3.6.23 - thunderbird 2.0.0.24 - kde 3.5.4 (only on LiveDVD) - evolution 2.12.3 (only on LiveDVD) - ... and much more Software added compared to standard Scientific Linux - fuse-ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS support) - ntfsprogs - gparted - reiserfs-utils, progsreiserfs - ms-sys - dd_rescue - ddrescue - iperf - xdialog --------------------------------------------------------------------- More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Urs Beyerle
