Scientific Linux 6.0 released [LWN.net]

Scientific Linux 6.0 released

Posted Mar 4, 2011 18:29 UTC (Fri) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085)
In reply to: Scientific Linux 6.0 released by donbarry
Parent article: Scientific Linux 6.0 released

It was actually suggested at one point (by a Debian user) on the SL devel mailing list that Scientific Linux rebase themselves on Debian:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=...

Not too surprisingly, there weren't any replies.

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Scientific Linux 6.0 released

Posted Mar 4, 2011 19:08 UTC (Fri) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link] (1 responses)

I suspect that comes from two factors:

1) Not many scientists outside of subdisciplines of physics use
"Scientific Linux". I do not know a single astrophysicist who
does. I'm sure there are many users at a few particle physics
labs, probably dictated by management.

2) Those who know the inertia of bureaucracies figure they have better
fish to fry, and as long as someone else is packaging the software
they need, would prefer to tilt their lances elsewhere.

That said, I think that the "Scientific Linux" packagers would be
very well served by rebasing their efforts onto Debian.

Scientific Linux 6.0 released

Posted Mar 7, 2011 17:36 UTC (Mon) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link]

Coincidentally, mention of Scientific Linux just came up on the debian-science mailing list. Some highlights:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg00006.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg00007.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg00012.html

- Kevin