[dundee] Scientific Linux - A Little Known Gem

[gordon dunlop]

One free Red Hat clone that isn't mentioned a lot is Scientific Linux, one
of my favourites, and is the same as CentOS but has extra scientific
programs included:


http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/09/scientific_linu.html;jsessionid=TW4IER2MNXTNHQE1GHPCKHWATMY32JVN

It is used in Universities and Research Institutions all around the world in
their clusters, servers and as a corporate desktop. 3rd party repositories
are included, disabled by default but easy to enable them, for multimedia
codecs and applications etc:

https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum.apt.repo

Like CentOS, it has 7 years of long term support and the Scientific Linux 5
series is due to run until March 2014:

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/is-7-years-of-rhel-support-still-sufficient

It might not be geeky like other distros, but if someone is looking for a
stable, long term server/ desktop Linux distribution, this is a good one for
them.

Gordon
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