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,