Scientific Linux 7.3 to Launch of January 25, First Release Candidate Is Out Now

Scientific Linux's Pat Riehecky reports on the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) development build of the upcoming Scientific Linux 7.3 open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3. Now that Red Hat launched the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 enterprise-ready operating system, it was just a matter of time for CentOS, Scientific Linux, and other forks to up their game and announce new, updated versions of their GNU/Linux distributions, based, of course, on the freely distributed sources of the former. A first Release Candidate is already available for Scientific Linux 7.3, if you want to be an early adopter and a sport to report bugs, but if no critical ones are being reported during the testing period of two weeks, this RC build will be re-released as the final version of the operating system later this month, on January 25, 2017. These are the major differences from Scientific Linux 7.2 It looks to us li...