[CentOS] CentOS and SL, together?

[Lamar Owen]

On Saturday 28 May 2005 16:31, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > teams might work together.  Any substance there (being that there are
> > things Scientific Linux has that I like and use, but they seem to be
> > pretty much

> What are these 'things' that are not provided via the CentOS
> Distribution base ?

Referencing SL3 and CentOS 3 (as I haven't run SL4 as yet) there were some 
scientific applications and some Java stuff, eclipse for one, part of cluster 
suite for another, included.  Lessee,  
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/30x/features/ is the reference.  
GFS, Eclipse, Cluster Suite, OpenAFS, ksh93, a set of 'tweak' RPMs (my 
favorite being the serial console tweak RPM).

For SL4, the doc is at 
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/features/ and includes fewer 
addons.  OpenAFS is the biggest of these, I guess.  The same 'tweak' RPMs are 
there again (including my favorite, again, the serial console one.  I 
duplicate its name and description here:  SL_enable_serialconsole: This 
script makes all the changes necessary to send console output to both the 
serial port and the screen. This also creates a login prompt on the serial 
port and allows users to login at this prompt.   Once the cluster suite and 
eclipse are available they probably will be rolled in.

The Fermi version of SL 3 had included a packaged JRE and was very attractive 
for that, but later releases have not had that and rather have pointers to 
download from sun.

Pine also is in the SL dists.
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