[1203] in Release_7.7_team
notes, 1/20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Mon Jan 26 14:24:13 1998
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:23:56 EST
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
0. the "public test cluster" should go in early.
1. We're a bit concerned about the update for IRIX 6.3 (Craig turned
up last week and was working on it)
2. There is a need to look at the .desktop handling under 6.3, 6.2
and how it interacts with the 5.3 handling. I.e., it looks as if
there is an "upgrade" path, but no expectation that people may be
switching back and forth.
3. the softwindows package may be a problem for irix 6.2. if it is,
we'll just drop it. (there may be licensing questions about this
package anyway)
4. The new Ultra lines seem to have dropped the pizzabox 24 bit color
version that we would like. Also, the ones we got on the educational
discount special deal seem to have become non-existent.
5. We looked at
http://web.mit.edu/solarisdev/www/solaris2.6/notes.html a bit. we'll
probably drop the webserver/intranet stuff and the SUN specific
netscape.
We're also recommending that we NOT install answerbook stuff. it's
now available on the web.
Miki will be working with the f_l's, database group, etc. to do a
patch review.
we will have a small group look at power management and what to do
with it.
Should use the vendor ntp, xntp, etc.
There are at least three flavors of secure NFS (pgp, krb4, gssapi).
We need to consider our approach (although we will probably continue
to support our knfs for SGI and Solaris).
PAM may be useful in the future, but not for this summer.
WebNFS allows suitably equipped browsers to work with nfs servers. We
need to investigate the mechanism more, possibly look at user
document, etc.
CDE - later, not this summer.
Bind 4.9.4 - okay, this summer.
DHCP - we'd like the network group to consider whether this helps and
where.
