SME Server on Scientific Linux

The SME Server distribution is based on CentOS. Since CentOS is a derivative of RHEL, it is possible to install the SME Server functionalities on top of other (virtually 100% binary compatible) RHEL derivatives, including CentOS itself.

This possibility may be interesting for organisations that have a software policy in place that prevents the deployment of a server OS not listed as an allowed OS within such a policy. Typically large enterprises, governmental and university related organisations have and enforce such a policy.

Scientific Linux has the following introduction:

SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters. The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source. Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. Examples of items that were added are Alpine, and OpenAFS. Our secondary goal is to allow easy customization for a site, without disturbing the Scientific Linux base. The various labs are able to add their own modifications to their own site areas. By the magic of scripts, and the anaconda installer, each site is to be able to create their own distributions with minimal effort. Or, if a user wishes, they can simply install the base SL release.

SME Server 9.0 on top of Scientific Linux

TBA (the below are just placeholders)

• Install SL minimal
• enable networking and SSH
• Disable SELinux
• merge SME 9 repo's and SL repo's
• Yum install [list]
• yum upgrade
• post-upgrade/reboot
• console