A GNU/Linux distribution created especially for scientists

Aug 27, 2015 01:30 GMT  ·  By

The Scientific Linux team, through Pat Riehecky, has had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability for download of the Scientific Linux 6.7 computer operating system.

Based on the freely distributed source code of the recently announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 operating system from Red Hat Inc., Scientific Linux 6.7 is here to update its base to the upstream OS, add some tweaks, update many of its core components, and address some of the most annoying bugs.

Prominent features of Scientific Linux 6.7 include the addition of the IceWM window manager, not to mention that it updated the OpenAFS package to version 1.6.14, updated the epel-release package to version 6.8, and built the glusterfs-server package from the TUV sources provided for the GlusterFS client.

Among many under-the-hood, security, and performance improvements, Scientific Linux 6.7 also sees the addition of the liveusb-creator, livecd-tools, revisor, yum-autoupdate, and abattis-cantarell-fonts packages, as well as external repositories for the YUM package manager.

"One of the goals of Scientific Linux is to be as close to the original vendor release of Enterprise Linux. But there are several things that people want to change, for one reason or another. In order to have both worlds, we have created these tweak rpm's, more commonly known as SL rpm's," reads the announcement.

Available for download for 64-bit and 32-bit architectures

Scientific Linux 6.7 is available for download right now from Softpedia, distributed as installable-only DVD ISO images that support 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit (x86) computers. Existing Scientific Linux users can update to version 6.7 as we speak, using the usual tools available in the operating system.

When upgrading, please be aware that the sssd-common package is no longer compatible with the multilib system, so if you're using the sssd-common.i686 package on a 64-bit installation, you will not be able to update. To fix the issue, remove the sssd-common.i686 package.