Hi,



With a little delay I can announce the release of Scientific Linux 5.7 LiveCD/DVD.



Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.7 can now be downloaded for 32 and 64 bit:



ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/57/i386

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/57/x86_64



Public mirrors of Scientific Linux 5.7 LiveCD/DVD can be found here

https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors



Please note that the SL 5.7 LiveCD/DVD were built with the old build environment

used for all SL 4.x SL 5.x LiveCD/DVD releases so far.

For more information see http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build_sl4_sl5.html





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        Scientific Linux 5.7 Live CD and DVD (32bit and 64bit)

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The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs

Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. It is based on

Scientific Linux 5.7 (SL57), which is recompiled from RedHat

Enterprise Linux 5 sources (RHEL5).



The following versions of the Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD are

available for download:



  - livecd:         CD-ROM for 32bit

  - livecd64:       CD-ROM for 64bit

  - livedvd:        DVD-ROM for 32bit

  - livedvd64:      DVD-ROM for 64bit

  - mini_livecd:    Mini CD-ROM for 32bit

  - mini_livecd64:  Mini CD-ROM for 64bit





Features



  - LiveCD can be installed to local hard disk

  - LiveCD runs from USB key

  - Changes can be stored persistently on an external device

  - LiveCD can be mounted over NFS (diskless client)





Software



  - kernel 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5

  - openAFS client 1.4.14

  - xorg 7.1

  - alsa sound lib 1.0.17

  - gnome 2.16.0 (standard desktop)

  - gimp 2.2.13

  - openoffice.org 3.1.1

  - firefox 3.6.23

  - thunderbird 2.0.0.24

  - kde 3.5.4 (only on LiveDVD)

  - evolution 2.12.3 (only on LiveDVD)

  - ... and much more





Software added compared to standard Scientific Linux



  - fuse-ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS support)

  - ntfsprogs

  - gparted

  - reiserfs-utils, progsreiserfs

  - ms-sys

  - dd_rescue

  - ddrescue

  - iperf

  - xdialog





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More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

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--- Urs Beyerle