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Athena 8.3 beta test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon May 17 18:59:23 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:59:09 -0400
Message-Id: <199905172259.SAA21187@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: adamico@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU, athena-rcc@MIT.EDU, aurora@MIT.EDU,
bev@MIT.EDU, cat@MIT.EDU, cavan@MIT.EDU, ccount@MIT.EDU,
cfields@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU, danw@MIT.EDU, dkk@MIT.EDU,
dryfoo@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU, foley@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU,
gjking@MIT.EDU, jfoster@MIT.EDU, jlwfnord@MIT.EDU, joewelch@MIT.EDU,
jweiss@MIT.EDU, kcr@MIT.EDU, kcunning@MIT.EDU, kxw@MIT.EDU,
lcs@MIT.EDU, lcs@MIT.EDU, lisanti@MIT.EDU, lxs@MIT.EDU,
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Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
The Athena 8.3 beta test phase begins tonight for both platforms.
This release continues to use Solaris 2.6, and contains an upgrade to
IRIX 6.5 for both kinds of SGIs. Some new things in the Athena
software in this release:
* An update of our default mail software from MH to nmh. As
part of this update, we now have support for displaying MIME
attachments in mail messages.
* A bunch of upgrade to externally maintained software. emacs
20.3, some tex-related upgrades, a BIND upgrade, some other
stuff.
* A glitzy new screensaver program, installed as xss.
* Support for bash as an alternative shell.
* A new printing system, LPRng.
And, of course, a lot of small changes and bug fixes. See
/afs/dev.mit.edu/project/relnotes/rel83.tex for a draft of the system
release notes; draft user release notes will be available soon.
Even if your machine is configured with AUTOUPDATE true, it will not
take the 8.3 beta release automatically. To take the release
manually, do a console login as root (type Control-p at the xlogin
window and log in as root using the text login display) and run:
FOR SOLARIS MACHINES:
detach -O -a
attach -O dev-sun4sys-83
/srvd/update_ws
# Watch, or go do something else for five minutes or so.
shutdown -y -i6 -g0
FOR IRIX MACHINES:
detach -O -a
attach -O dev-sgisys-83
/srvd/update_ws
# Watch, or go do something else for five hours or so.
During this beta phase, we do our best to maintain the stability and
correctness of test machines. However, bugs in the release software
could disrupt your work.
Here is a list of beta machines and their contacts, sorted by contact
address:
Machine name Contact
------------ -------
tiki-god adamico
whirlwind ajfox
cogsworth athena-rcc,zacheiss
cruella-de-vil athena-rcc,zacheiss
dewey athena-rcc,zacheiss
ferd athena-rcc,zacheiss
gaston athena-rcc,zacheiss
kamp-krusty athena-rcc,zacheiss
merriweather athena-rcc,zacheiss
mickey-mouse athena-rcc,zacheiss
ultrasparc athena-rcc,zacheiss
kikki aurora
sidney aurora
travis bev
sakhmet cat
indiana cavan
neroon cavan
selenium ccount
mad-scientist cfields
smoke-screen cfox
implementor danw
technomage danw
partly-cloudy dkk
dizzy dryfoo
central f_l
sledgehammer foley
small-gods ghudson
pit-of-despair gjking
arizona jfoster
special-forces jlwfnord
sgi-02 joewelch
deliverator jweiss
the-other-woman jweiss
tigana jweiss
hikari-no-ken kcr
slingshot kcunning
parbat kxw
defiant lcs
rotarran lcs
inner-beauty lisanti
ethanol lxs
asteroids mbarker
defender mbarker
dig-dug mbarker
gyruss mbarker
joust mbarker
not-a-guppy mbarker
pitfall mbarker
space-invaders mbarker
spy-hunter mbarker
complexity-catastrophe mdh
the-guardian-of-forever meeroh
forever mhbraun
gypsy miki
kangi miki
suntzu miki
chicago mvsilis
not-an-sgi mvsilis
athyra mwhitson
tiassa mwhitson
blue-box network
allegretto nschmidt
mufasa othomas
coup-detat pocky
aupair rbasch
boom rbasch
kiko rbasch
bounce rel-eng
maytag rel-eng
bart-savagewood sipb-staff
bobbi-harlow sipb-staff
oliver sipb-staff
opus sipb-staff
x15-cruise-basselope sipb-staff
pusey tb
saint-elmos-fire tlyu
tesla-coil tlyu
dcl tytso
rsx-11 tytso
mr-jones vrt
sneetch vrt
hanta-yo wdc
oglala wdc
stinkurd wdc
cruft zacheiss
infocalypse zacheiss
science-fiction-double-feature zacheiss
sweet-transvestite zacheiss
