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Revainrating 4.5 out of 5  
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4.6
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Description of Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux is a stable, scalable, and extensible operating system for scientific computing.

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Revainrating 4 out of 5

Easy configuration with scientific capabilities

What I like about Scientific Linux is that it's easy to use and configure for my applications.The ability to do everything from just the command line is perfect when you're using things such as Matlab or Python. It also allows me to access Linux software without needing to have a full Ubuntu environment set up. The only thing I've found to be confusing is figuring out how to install new packages and dependencies into Scientific Linux compared to apt-get in Ubuntu. I'm having a hard time finding

Pros
  • Easy installation
  • Great support documentation (man pages)
  • Highly stable system with minimal bugs/issues
Cons
  • Not all major distros are available

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great Distribution for Web Development

It's an Open Source distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The package management is really good. I can very easily install software from community repositories. I use it to develop my applications in PHP/MySQL environment. It has tools like GIT that are very useful too. This is great distro to develop your application in linux. Nothing much to dislike about this distro. I would recommend anyone who wants to develop their applications in linux should definitely try out this distro. I am…

Pros
  • Excellent tool for deploying
  • RPM based, easy command line installation.
  • Very mature open source project with lot many packages included under one roof (Linux)Easy access through GUI or CLI
Cons
  • So-so

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Scientific Linux - Best Slacko Linux release ever!!!

The best thing about this distro was that it could run almost all my applications without any problems at once time which made me feel very comfortable with using linux in general as well! There were some times when I had to use command line interface but those are few occasions only because of its powerfullness compared other distributions out there like redhat or centos etcetera. Nothing really bad came up while i used SL7 so far!! Try different versions if you have an option just try them…

Pros
  • Nothing really bad came up while i used SL7 so far!! Try different
Cons
  • Will fit