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It's as special as Edubuntu. It may be based on RH (as Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu), but it's prepackaged with lot's of software for scientific usage (the same
by moondowner 14y ago
It's as special as Edubuntu. It may be based on RH (as Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu), but it's prepackaged with lot's of software for scientific usage (the same way Edubuntu is prepackaged with educational software).
It's obvious that some distros are more special-purpose and some of them can easily be configured/converted for everyday usage.
- 4ad 14y agoNo, Scientific Linux is not prepackaged with lots of software for scientific usage. It's extremely close to RHEL. The additions are documented here: http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/added http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/add...
- mbubb 14y agoYes - exactly. It does not have 'special science sauce' added.
- keithpeter 14y agoSpringdale Linux (previously PUIAS Linux) is another RHEL 6 clone but they do provide a repository that contains some computational maths software. That repository is not installed by default, and can be used with the other RHEL clones.