P2O2 WWW Scientific Linux

Created - Apr 31, 2007  |  Modified - Sep 20, 2007

P2O2 WWW Homepage -> Scientific Linux

Hyperlinks

• Scientific Linux WWW
• Scientific Linux FTP - CERN
• Scientific Linux LiveCD WWW
• Scientific Linux LiveCD FTP
• Scientific Linux Web Sites

Scientific Linux 5.0

From SL WWW:

"Scientific Linux is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.

The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source."

They can't say it but I may: Scientific Linux is de facto recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Thanks to the sources Red Hat made available to Open Source community.

Scientific Linux Live System (SL LiveCD 5.0)

From SL LiveCD WWW:

"The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing (like Knoppix and many others). It is based on Scientific Linux (SL), which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources. It uses Unification File System (unionfs) in case of SL4 and Another Unionfs (aufs) in case of SL5, allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one and squashfs providing on-the-fly decompression that allows to store 2GB software on a normal CD-ROM. The Live CD/DVDs were built using modified scripts from www.linux-live.org.

Additionally the Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD can be used to setup a server for Diskless Client. The diskless clients will run Scientific Linux without a local Linux installation getting the operation system over the network (via NFS)."

There are several LiveCD flavors. I like experimental version mini_livecd_SL50_2007-06-12.iso (~230 MB). But both the Mini LiveCD and the livecd_SL50_gnome_2007-05-25.iso lacks icons for additional applications and menu files for IceWM. Mini LiveCD is distributed without Gnome but with IceWM, and LiveCD has GNOME and IceWM. Lack of the files coerce users to additional works. I've made the files and you can download them. Have a fun.

Picture 1. SL Mini LiveCD IceWM desktop with original icons (click to enlarge)

Picture 2. SL Mini LiveCD IceWM desktop with new icons, but without downloaded applications I used (click to enlarge)

Download Files

1.) sl_icewm_icons.tar.gz - xpm icons for IceWM (usr/share/icewm/icons)
2.) sl_icewm_menu.tar.gz - menu files for IceWM (to be put in ~/.icewm)