Jon Peatfield wrote:
> 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.
Nice, the latest version would be perfect and good for a distro which is 
specialized in scientific software ;)
>
> 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.
Would be good.

Let say that this is a user request from me to include the latest 
texlive version in sl6 (when is the release date?)!

Thanks,