Talk:Scientific Linux

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Why is this linking to an https?

--midorigin 15:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

-It is alright, you do Not have to mind it. It is a policy of the webmaster of SL. https is also adopted at Red Hat website. User-green 01:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Packages

Would someone like to list a few major points as to what separates this from other distributions? i.e., what is missing that is commonly around, or what has been added that the sci community would like that regular distributions don't find appealing enough to add. For instance, I was wondering if this had Root pre-installed (it better).

[edit] Differences with RHEL

The diff between SL and RHEL are lited in the Release Note For instance lastRelease Note (4.4) is ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/44/i386/SL.releasenote