The first release candidate for Scientific Linux 6.2 is a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and enhanced with extra applications useful in academic environments. Scientific Linux 6.2 Release Candidate 1 i386/x86_64 is now available for testing. Differences from version 6.1: Anaconda - added the Scientific Linux install classes, DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed; OpenAFS - updated to version 1.6.0-97, this packages includes a patch to disable NAT pings to avoid a race condition; livecd-tools, liveusb-creator - updated from upstream to version 13.4, added support for Scientific Linux 6.2; redhat-rpm-config - changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an enterprise Linux; sl-release - added CERN's GPG.

About Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux, co-developed by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Although it aims to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it also provides additional packages not found in the upstream product; the most notable among these are various file systems, including Cluster Suite and Global File System (GFS), FUSE, OpenAFS, Squashfs and Unionfs, wireless networking support with Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NDISwrapper, Sun Java and Java Development Kit (JDK), the lightweight IceWM window manager, R - a language and environment for statistical computing, and the Alpine email client.