Scientific Linux 6 is very nice

marko · #1 6th June 2011, 02:43 AM

I have a small atom based PC that had Fedora 14 on it that I use for print serving. I decided now that Scientific Linux 6 is out I could put it on instead of Fedora 14 since it has a more sedate update cycle. It works very well, it's kind of like going back to Fedora 12 or so but with some tweaks so that it's a bit more up to date

ElderSnake · #2 6th June 2011, 06:21 AM

Nice, so being Gentoo based I take it everything gets compiled from source but it's handled in an automated fashion?

boydrice · #3 6th June 2011, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ElderSnake

Nice, so being Gentoo based I take it everything gets compiled from source but it's handled in an automated fashion?

Scientific Linux is a rebuild of RHEL like CentOS.

ElderSnake · #4 6th June 2011, 07:05 AM

:o What on earth am I thinking of then..

EDIT: Ohhhhhh..."Calculate Linux". I can see how I messed that up

Carry on.

giulix · #5 6th June 2011, 08:31 AM

Speaking of CentOS... Any news about CentOS 6? Wasn't it supposed to be released this week? I was thinking about a server upgrade...

P.S. Or next week (maybe)...

smr54 · #6 6th June 2011, 01:16 PM

There's a calendar up--

http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/calendar

Don't know how close they are to schedule.

giulix · #7 24th June 2011, 08:07 PM

Are we there yet?

leigh123linux · #8 24th June 2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by giulix

Are we there yet?

Who cares about CentOS 6.0?, it's already obsolete before they release it.

smr54 · #9 24th June 2011, 11:22 PM

Trouble is, that some vendors, at this point, will only support CentOS and RH. The hope is that 6.1 will follow relatively quickly after 6.0, Regardless, better they hold off and release something not broken.

ClearOS is another contender at this point. I would be sad to see CentOS go the way of Whitebox and Tao, but I also think the more important thing to those using it commercially, was that they did get up to speed on security updates.

oldoak · #10 3rd April 2012, 01:02 PM

I've been using Fedora since its birth (darn near) and have not gone beyond 14. I recently purchased a SL6.2 DVD which does not work. I read somewhere about downloading a Scientific Linux boot.iso and "then" doing an upgrade. Would that (the boot.iso) be burnt to a DVD and then would you do a "normal" DVD boot?

RupertPupkin · #11 3rd April 2012, 02:05 PM

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would that (the boot.iso) be burnt to a dvd and then would you do a "normal" dvd boot?

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witek · #12 3rd April 2012, 02:07 PM

Scientific Linux is the first distro in which I am unable to mount an XFS partition that stores all my data

oldoak · #13 4th April 2012, 03:48 PM

Hi witek - are you still using SL ?
You said that you were "unable to mount an XFS partition that stores all my data".
I am debating whether or not to switch to Scientific Linux fom Fedora 14.
I understand that SL is based on Fedora. What other distros have you used?

smr54 · #14 4th April 2012, 03:54 PM

Note that it's not based on Fedora, it's based on RHEL.

While very similar, there are differences--SL (and RHEL) will use older versions of packages and aim primarily for stability.

oldoak · #15 4th April 2012, 04:31 PM

Thanks smr54 - that sounds quite desireable to me!