On 12 January 2016 at 08:29, Arthur H. Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have made one move to SL-7, and it hasn't been great. I live behind a
> firewall that prevents me from raiding other RH-based repositories, so I
> lost xmgrace in the process. Also, I could never find something as
> simple as a periodic table (either gperiodic or kalzium). As a mostly
> ubunut user, I was pretty disappointed in the package base. It seemd
> that ubuntu had many more scientific packages than SL. The community, on
> the other hand, was very helpful. Perhaps a move to CENTOS can bring
> more packages.
>
> Art Edwards

Since SL builds from the CentOS packages, I don't think you are going
to see that. The issue is that you seem to be looking for an
educational OS and Scientific Linux is meant for supporting the
scientists at various scientific labs. Those have some cross section
but are not 1:1. The second issue is that those packages aren't in the
core EL builds (but were in Fedora) so that what you are looking for
is packages that would need to be rebuilt from Fedora which usually
means extra work by someone. This can be done in EPEL or in the
scientific linux extra packages but someone needs to step up and do
it.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.