Scientific Linux 6.9 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

On April 17, 2017, Fermilab’s Pat Riehecky was proud to announce the release and immediate availability for download the Scientific Linux 6.9 operating system.

Scientific Linux is an open-source GNU/Linux distribution derived from the freely distributed sources of Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) operating system, put together by Fermilab, CERN, and several other scientific laboratories and universities from around the world.

Scientific Linux 6.9 is the latest stable update to the 6.x series, but also the last, as Red Hat recently announced that they wouldn’t support their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x branch anymore with security patches and software updates, meaning that both Scientific Linux 6.9 and RHEL 6.9 are … (read more)

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