Yes.  We run it 24 x 365 for physics data processing on our production
farm (600+ batch workers plus numerous services nodes).  The base is
just a rebuild of RHEL with the branding removed so it is as stable as
the equivalent RHEL.

	Martin.
-- 
Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of arnuld
> Sent: 11 June 2007 12:43
> To: Scientific Linux
> Subject: is Scientific Linux stable enough ?
> 
> hello to all,
> 
> i am a newbie to Scientific Linux. for my project work i need to have
> RHEL. so i searched Google for Open alternatives and found 2 of my
> choice:  CentOS and Scientific Linux. i liked Scientific Linux, may be
> because of my childhood love of Nuclear Physics and Astronomy :-)
> 
> i have used Fedora, the base of RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS.
> Fedora is the one of the most buggy *NIX distro i have ever seen. i
> just want to know whether Scientific Linux is stable and reliable
> enough to work with. i will use Scientific Linux primarily for
> developing astronomical image processing software and also for
> watching Bruce Lee's movies ;-)
> 
> 
> NOTE: please do not take my email is as offense, to be true to you
> people, Fedora just sucks :-(
> 
> 
> -- 
> http://arnuld.blogspot.com/
>