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Athena 9.0 early release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 18 23:43:31 2001
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:43:25 -0400
Message-Id: <200106190343.XAA23800@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: early-announce@mit.edu
CC: beta-announce@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
Welcome to early-announce (unless you got this mail because it went to
beta-announce and testers). You're on this list because you're listed
as a contact for an Athena machine in the early cluster, or because
you're on one of the lists athena-rcc, cluster-services, release-team,
or sipb-staff, which are listed as contacts for early machines. If you
want to take yourself off this list, just do:
blanche -d $USER early-announce
Athena 9.0 early testing is currently scheduled to begin in one week,
Monday June 25. Early machines which are set AUTOUPDATE=true will
automatically update from 8.4 to 9.0 when the early release begins;
alpha and beta machines which have not been updated to 9.0 will also
update at this time.
If you need to update manually to 9.0 after it goes out, do a console
login (^P at the xlogin prompt) as root and run:
SOLARIS:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sun4sys-90
update_ws
IRIX:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sgisys-90
update_ws
LINUX:
update_ws 9.0
Linux machines are required to update to at least 8.4.25 before they
can update to 9.0. If you are running a release prior to 8.4.25,
update to 8.4.25, REBOOT (this is very important), and then update to
9.0.
There are release notes available via "help" under the "Release Notes"
entry. They're not long; the 9.0 release is a small number of large
changes. Chief among them is a rework of the Athena default login to
use sawfish, the GNOME panel, and gnome-terminal instead of mwm, dash,
and xterm.
