Scientific Linux 6.10 Images Released for VirtualBox and VMware

Scientific Linux project team announced the latest build of legacy branch distribution, built from recently released source package Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.10 and it is supported until 2020: “Scientific Linux 6.10 i386/x86_64. According to the upstream lifecycle guide, 6.10 is expected to be the final release of EL6, with only important security errata or critical bug fixes going forward. Please run yum clean expire-cache. Major Differences from SL 6.9: sl-release – updated to use the 6.10 repositories; OpenAFS – updated to 1.6.22.3. Changed compared to Enterprise 6: httpd – changed the default index.html to remove upstream’s branding; Plymouth – removed the red colors for text mode; redhat-logos – changed all trademarked icons and pictures from upstream, changed styles of items such as background, GDM and KDM to change the tradedress style; Anaconda – add the Scientific Linux install classes, DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed; redhat-rpm-config – changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an Enterprise Linux; xorg-x11-server – changed to remove TUV’s support URL. Some packages would not build in our build environment. We changed these packages in order for them, or other packages, to build. The changes are minimal and are associated with a bug filed upstream to hopefully reduce this list over time. The final packages have been compared to freely available ones and are not significantly different…” You can read complete release announcement here.

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