The latest version for both is 5.x. In a comment to an on-line Linux Journal article, William Roddy wrote, "Scientific Linux will work in any environment Red Hat would, and even better. It's a work of ...

An alternative to Windows or Mac, it has attracted the attention of people from a variety of fields. For example, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the majority of the campus grid is ...

Linux is popular in science due to open-source values, free licenses, and compatibility with custom software. The history of Unix use and the need for custom software deployment make Linux a ...

I've covered scientific software in previous articles that either analyzes image information or actually generates image data for further analysis. In this article, I introduce a tool that you can use ...

Fermilab began packaging and distributing Scientific Linux in 2004 to the broad high-energy physics community. At that time, it was used on only 1,500 machines. Today, Scientific Linux is run on tens ...

DNA-sequencing lab technicians use Linux. Really, for applications that require absolute stability, which most scientific experiments are, Linux is the obvious choice.

This distribution’s name says it all. Scientific Linux is meant for use by large research labs such as CERN and the U.S.’s equivalent high-energy physics group, Fermilab. Its main goal is to ...

Linux Mint Value proposition for potential buyers: Linux Mint is another community-driven Linux distribution based on a combination of Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux that provides what users ...

Torvalds announced the release of Linux 3.3 last night on the Linux kernel mailing list. He made no specific note of the Android merge, but it's been under way for months.