On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> A.S wrote:
>>  Hi all,
>>  When You make new version SL ?
>>
>>  with  Qt4, Kdev 3.5, OpenOffice 3 ?
>>
>>  TIA,
>>  Rav
>
> Whenever RedHat does.
> We are not creating Scientific Linux from scratch, we are recompiling from 
> RedHat Enterpirse Linux.  Basic things, like what you listed, are not items 
> that we change.
> If you want the latest and the greatest, then Scientific Linux is probably 
> not for you.  I would suggest Fedora, or some derivative of it.

Not to disagree with any of that but sl5 already includes Qt4 (in the qt4* 
packages of course).

We add openoffice (currently 3.1.0) to our sl5 machines with no problems 
at all RH have always been a bit slow for that one...  [ I'm not sure I 
know what Kdev is but we don't seem to install it. ]

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