V etom rukovodstve daetsya kratkoe opisanie protsedury ustanovki distributiva i priemov raboty v sistemakh Scientific Linux (SL) i NauLinuks versiy 5 i 6. Krome togo, dannoe rukovodstvo mozhet byt' poleznym pri osvoenii drugikh rodstvennykh distributivov, takikh kak Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, CentOS, Fedora. SL yavlyaetsya standartom de fakto v nauchnom mire, prezhde vsego - v oblasti fiziki vysokikh energiy. On yavlyaetsya bazovym distributivom dlya GRID-sistemy (LCG) obrabotki rezul'tatov eksperimentov, provodimykh na Adronnom Superkollaydere v CERN. LCG ob"edinyaet sotni vychislitel'nykh tsentrov v desyatkakh stran i obladaet sovokupnoy vychislitel'noy moshchnost'yu v desyatki tysyach CPU. Ob"em obrabatyvaemykh dannykh, porozhdaemykh eksperimentami, ischislyaetsya petabaytami. V ramkakh proekta NauLinuks na baze Scientific Linux Cyrillic Edition (SLCE) sozdayutsya spetsializirovannye prikladnye sistemy s razlichnoy funktsional'nost'yu, naprimer, orientirovannye na vnedrenie v otechestvennye nauchnye i obrazovatel'nye uchrezhdeniya. Osushchestvlyaetsya podderzhka razlichnykh natsional'nykh yazykov, v tom chisle - narodov Rossii i blizhayshego zarubezh'ya.