On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 01:25 +0000, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > > Fedora should be similar to Redhat products, but is further ahead, > > trying out new stuff, so there are some slight differences. I run FC6 on > > my personal laptop but use a Enterprise Linux based distro at work, > > namely Scientific Linux (3 and 4). Tjhere are differences. > > I've always wanted to try SL but never had the time. I do now, so I > thought I'd ask someone with hands on experience how is it different than > FC? What tools does it have that I can't get in FC6? Is it more stable? > Thanks! > Scientific Linux tracks Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so SL4.x is very similar to RHEL 4. For differences, look at https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/44/ If you use commercial scientific software or compilers, you may want to look at SL. If a vendor says that they support RHEL 4 then SL 4 should work with no problem. Take a look at the live CD/DVD first: https://www.scientificlinux.org/news/livecd.44 Tony
