On 14 November 2011 20:31, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I was just reminded of the Scientific distro, which on the surface > appears to be quite similar to CentOS even when the developers over > there are rather coy about which Enterprise Linux distro they base > theirs on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux It is an other repackaging of the Upstream, with different goals in mind.