Scientific Linux是重新编译的Red Hat Enterprise Linux，由费米国家加速器实验室和欧洲核研究组织（CERN）共同开发。尽管它旨在与Red Hat Enterprise Linux完全兼容，它也提供了上游产品中未收入的额外软件包，这当中最值得一提的是各种文件系统，包括Cluster Suite和Global File System（GFS）、FUSE、OpenAFS、Squashfs、Unionfs，以及对Intel无线固件的无线网络支持、MadWiFi和NDISwrapper、Sun Java及Java Development Kit（JDK）、轻量级的IceWM窗口管理器、面向统计计算的R语言环境，以及Alpine邮件客户端。
Troy Dawson has announced the availability of the first beta release of Scientific Linux 6.1, a Red Hat-based distribution with extra software likely to be of use in academic and scientific environments: "The first beta of Scientific Linux 6.1 has been released. All of the recompiled packages have passed our tests to our satisfaction. We do not expect the packages that we get from the upstream vendor to change. Although we see a few tweaks and changes before release candidate, these should all be minor. I believe we have made it past the last major hurdles. Changes since alpha 2: libguestfs - recompiled against a different repository so that it better matched our golden image; qemu-kvm - recompiled against several different repositories, our version does not require several libX libraries...." See the release announcement for full details. Download: SL-61-i386-2011-07-01-Install-DVD.iso (3,607MB, SHA256), SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-01-Install-DVD.iso (4,184MB, SHA256). On a related note, live images containing Scientific Linux 5.6 are now ready for testing.
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