Scientific Linux [1] is also a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) derivative and heavily used by government labs (i.e. Fermilab/CERN) and universities. Red hat mak

Scientific Linux [1] is also a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) derivative and heavily used by government labs (i.e. Fermilab/CERN) and universities. Red hat makes lots of money off subscriptions and support, you might wonder why you would run RHEL when you could run CentOS/SL for free. Many software vendors like vmware/oracle/sybase will require you to run a "supported" operating system, so you would typically run RHEL on these types of boxes, which allows you to get support from vmware/oracle/sybase. [1] https://www.scientificlinux.org/ https://www.scientificlinux.org/