Scientific Linux 7 Released

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From DistroWatch:

Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in the upstream product; the most notable among these are various file systems, including Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs, wireless networking support with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper, Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), the lightweight IceWM window manager, R - a language and environment for statistical computing, and the Alpine email client.
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Anyone tried it yet?

I'm specifically interested in which gnome version it's running. The CentOS 7 implementation of gnome 3 is interesting but I haven't had an opportunity to really test drive it as yet.
 
Was tempted a while back, and especially now.
If it can offer good implementations of netcdf and hdf I'd be sold.

MickZA: Why would the interface matter?
 
c3n0byt3 said:
MickZA: Why would the interface matter?
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RHEL, Fedora & CentOS are now part of the same stable and I wondered if SL had gone with stock gnome 3 a'la Fedora (& Ubuntu) or opted for the CentOS custom version. I'm not going to attempt to describe the CentOS version but it seems very user friendly with a gnome 2 feel about it (no hot corners etc) as such I'm contemplating dropping CentOS 6 in favour of 7 on my clients desktop systems in order to run the latest versions of Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

Red Hat did this because it believes there are three very different ways that 70 to 80 percent people tend to use Red Hat Linux distros. Businesses that want a lot of support and device and staff certification pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Fedora is for users, often developers who use the latest and greatest Linux and open-source software and want to be ahead of the curve. CentOS is for Linux experts who can handle their own support and want a stable platform.

At the same time, CentOS was seeing that its users wanted some cool new software that the Fedora fans were getting, while keeping the stability of RHEL. Since CentOS didn't have the resources to do this, they were open to incorporating their Linux distribution with Red Hat.
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http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-reveals-centos-plans-7000027812/
 
ponder said:
CentOS is not known for new packages.
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Exactly - and the 7 repos are still missing a lot of Fedora goodies like shutter :(

... anyway, busy downloading SL7 - can't find a Live version so I guess I'll run it in a VM to see what it looks like.
 
MickZA said:
That's CentOS 7, I was referring to Scientific Linux 7 Live :)

... you've obviously had a long day as well :D
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Lol, oh schite. Think it's time to step away from the desk and go for a beer :D
 
Just installed it. The default DE is Gnome 3 in classic mode, which sort of looks like Gnome 2. It is possible to select normal Gnome 3 on boot if you prefer. This OS seems to boot a lot quicker than version 6 did.

It is also possible to install KDE during the initial setup. There are also a lot of other options during the setup as to what type of system you want. I selected the developer workstation option.
 
Snap :)

Just finished installing on a Celeron 2.6, 3GB mem, 80GB HDD and it looks good. As garyc says it's running Gnome 3 but in a "classic" mode - same as CentOS 7.

Now to see if the repos are better than CentOS.

SL7 gnome3.jpg
 
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