[PLUG] CentOS and RHEL 5 (Scientific Linux)

[Joe Pruett]

> The most attractive aspect of SL is that it has very long term
> support;  FermiLabs is still providing package updates for
> installations running SL3 ( RHEL3).  Some very big compute
> jobs run on superclusters for years - they don't stop them
> to upgrade distros.  The down side is that you don't get
> the latest/greatest hardware drivers with this approach.
> RHEL5 / SL5 resembles Fedora Core 6 .  However, if you are
> running server/desktop hardware, or older laptops, this will
> work just fine.

rhel 3 is still being supported by redhat as well.  they will be 
supporting it until oct 31, 2010.

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

and it looks like sl will be following the same timelines:

https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap