for making custom versions, thus allowing institutions and individuals to create their own variant. Release history Historical releases of Scientific Linux are the following. Each release is subjected to a period of public testing before it is considered 'released'. Support Security updates are provided for as long as Red Hat continues to release updates and patches for their versions. See also Fermi Linux, Fermilab's own custom version of Scientific Linux CentOS, another distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Rocks Cluster Distribution, a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing clusters References External links Scientific Linux Homepage 2004 software Enterprise Linux distributions RPM-based Linux distributions State-sponsored Linux distributions X86-64 Linux distributions CERN software Linux distributions