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Scientific Linux 6.5: Scientific Linux has announced an update to version 6.5. SL, as it is also known, is a Linux distro based on the sources distributed by Red Hat for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux produced at Fermilab and CERN. With CentOS being brought closer into Red Hat’s ecosystem, SL may be the new barometer for the health of the Red Hat code outside the company. Anyway, the release notes mostly point you to a copy of the “Upstream Vendors” version 6.

Python 3.4’s last beta: Over the weekend, the last beta of Python 3.4 arrived. With two more release candidates and a final date of March 16, those interested should be testing now. The time scale was bumped by three weeks to allow last minute changes to the Argument Clinic, a DSL for parsing arguments, to settle in. What’s also in 3.4? A new pathlib module, standardised enums, better object finalisation semantics, a C API for custom memory allocators, non-inheriting subprocess file descriptors, new statistics, asyncio and tracemalloc modules, a new hash algorithm for strings and binary data and better pickling.

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Following up from the last post, here’s the FreeBSD 10.0 announcement. Listed highlights of FreeBSD 10 are – Clang is now the default compiler and GCC is no longer installed by default, unbound is now the local caching DNS resolver and BIND is no longer a default, make’s replaced with bmake, ZFS has TRIM support for SSDs and LZ4 compression, guesting under Hyper-V is now supported and pkg is default package manager.

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