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[release-announce] IS&T Announces Beta Release of Debathena Precise

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jul 26 10:04:24 2012

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
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Good morning,

The Athena Release Team has been hard at work this summer preparing the 
newest version of Debathena, based on Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise").  This 
version is now available for beta testing.  It will be rolled out to 8 
workstations throughout campus (7 in the W20-575 cluster, and one 
Quickstation in W20) over the weekend.  Users interested in testing may 
also install it on their own machines (physical or virtual), though we do 
not recommend installing it on mission-critical infrastructure at this 
time.  Users who choose to participate in testing should read 
http://debathena.mit.edu/testing for more information and send their 
feedback to <testers@mit.edu>.  Please note that the PXE (network-based) 
installed still defaults to Natty, and testers will need to follow the 
prompts to select 'precise' as their distribution.

Preliminary release notes can be found in the MIT Knowledge Base at:
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/CQCKC
We will be updating them between now and the release date.

The final release is scheduled for early August, and another announcement 
will be sent to this list in advance of the release.

As with all Athena releases, a downgrade is not possible without wiping 
and re-installing the workstation, so users who rely on Athena for their 
daily work and/or use software not maintained or installed by IS&T 
(including software installed in course lockers) are strongly encouraged 
to make use of this period to test their software with the new version to 
ensure compatibility.

If you are receiving this e-mail, but are no longer responsible for Athena 
workstations or software in your department, lab, or center, please 
forward this message to your colleagues and encourage them to sign up for 
this list at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/release-announce

Cordially,

Jonathan Reed
for the Athena Release Team

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