Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux è una versione ricompilata di Red Hat Enterprise Linux, sviluppata dal Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory e la European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Sebbene sia pienamente compatibile con RHEL, contiene pacchetti addizionali non presenti in RHEL, come i  Cluster Suite e i Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs e Unionf.

Versione 7.2

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):
.External Repos
With SL 7.2, yum-conf files pointing to non-base SL (such as EPEL, ELRepo, SL-Extras, SL-SoftwareCollections, ZFS) have moved to a central location.
Since these repos are not specific to individual releases of SL, the separate location will allow for easier adding and removing of these resources for any SL7 system.
To load a resource, such as EPEL:
`yum install yum-conf-repos` followed by `yum install yum-conf-epel`.

.Install Media Updates
The install media now features the yum-fastest-mirror plugin.The yum-fastest-mirror plugin should locate a quickly responding mirror for network installs. SL specific yum vars are now expanded as expected.

.Scientific Linux Contexts
SL 7.2 includes initial support for Scientific Linux Contexts which should allow for ease of creating local customization for specific computing needs. For more information on Scientific Linux Contexts:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7/contexts/README.html

.OpenAFS
With SL 7.2 OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.16 the latest upstream stable.

.Yum behavior update
Backported patch from upstream for yum fs-vars, per BZ#1281593
Now yum vars set in /etc/yum/vars will be checked even in an alternate yum-root.
Thanks for the bug report Lincoln Bryant!

.IPA customizations
The IPA packages have been customized to remove the upstream links to their support services.

.Build Fixes
The curl and mariadb packages were modified to ensure their unit tests for date validation worked after Oct 2015

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

•  DVD  (4,2GB): http://mirrors.200p-sf.sonic.net/scientific/7.2/x86_64/iso/SL-7.2-DVD-x86_64-2016-02-02.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: https://www.scientificlinux.org/

Screenshot

Conclusioni

Alcuni sistemi AMD potrebbero avere bisogno di parametri aggiuntivi al kernel per essere stabili.