It looks that for the sake of peace in our department we will be 
converting our machines from centos to scientific linux. On the surface 
it looks easy, since they should be very comparable, Of course, I wonder 
about the differences...
I amalso  really interested in a comparison of scientific linux with 
other RHEL respins, such as centos, whitebox, XOS, ....
I note for instance, that centos already has a version of RHEL4 for i386 
out. I am also interested in speed of updates, compatibility with 3rd 
party RHEL packages (I use dag's repository quite a lot). Also, has 
anyone tried the nosrc packages developped by duke for mathematica, 
matlab, acrobat, etc?
Any information that may help me to understand potential pitfalls and 
benefits would be helpful.
Niels

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