Scientific Linux 7.3 Images Released for VirtualBox and VMware

Scientific Linux project team announced the latest build of their distribution, built from recently released source package Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): “The 4.7 GB install disk for Scientific Linux 7 has been discontinued. We have retained the dual-layer install media. We have also produced an ‘Everything’ image which exceeds dual-layer sizes, but contains the entire tree. OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.20, the latest upstream stable. There is a new Scientific Linux End User License Agreement (EULA). The EULA now contains information about the U.S. Government contract under which Fermilab produces Scientific Linux. The Scientific Linux context plugin has been altered to be less aggressive in its use of network resources. Several isolated crash reports and unexpected network bugs have been addressed. Now Context Data should only be fetched for users selecting context items…” You can read complete release announcement here and release notes here.

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