On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, schoappied wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in the scientific-linux distro. I have some questions about 
> some packages I like to use.
>
> Are R-project and texlive in scientific linux? Which versions?

In sl5.2 R version 2.7.0 is the current version, and that may be updated 
(at least in contrib packages) to the latest version in the next few 
weeks.

sl5 doesn't include texlive since that wasn't commonly shipped in any 
linux distribution when 5.0 was being built - it has tetex 3.0 instead.

If you particularly want texlive (rather than just a reasonable tex/latex 
etc) then you should be able to find a version which will work on sl5.

I would strongly suspect that sl6 will include texlive (since all tetex 
development moved over to texlive) assuming that upstream don't randomly 
drop tex.  Last time I checked (several months ago) a Fedora texlive 
package was still being worked on.

> Is it possible to choose kde or gnome as desktop manager?

Yes.

> Thanks in advance,
>

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