Scientific Linux is a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux put together by various labs and universities around the world.
Scientific Linux is a distribution built by re-compiling the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and providing some additional packages and features. The project has announced an update to the distributions 7.x series, Scientific Linux 7.5. The release announcement states: "Major differences from Scientific Linux 7.4: sl-release is updated to use the 7.5 repos; OpenAFS is now version 1.6.22.3; the kmod was published with the 7.5 security kernel; Anaconda crashes no longer offer to open a bugzilla with TUV; NetworkManager.i686 is no longer packaged for SL7. Known issues: If you have NetworkManager.i686 installed you must yum remove NetworkManager.i686 before upgrading. Applications which depend on exiv2-libs may need to be rebuilt. Users of ZFS On Linux should review.
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