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Athena 9.0 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 18 15:43:38 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:43:35 -0400
Message-Id: <200107181943.PAA29954@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
The Athena 9.0 public release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Tuesday July 24th for Solaris and IRIX, and the evening of
Wednesday July 25th for Linux.
This is a major release. There are some striking changes in the
default login, chiefly the replacement of the Dash menu and the MWM
window manager with the GNOME panel and the Sawfish window manager.
User release notes, which describe the major changes, are available
via "help" under the "Release Notes" entry.
Some Solaris machines will be unable to update without a reinstall due
to their partitioning (Solaris 8 requires more space on the root and
usr partitions than Solaris 7 did). We will identify those machines
during the coming few days, move them into a special no-update
cluster, and contact the machine owners to let them know.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to
release-team@mit.edu. If you find bugs in the new release, please
report them using "sendbug".
If you need to update a machine manually to 9.0 after it goes out
(because you have a machine which is set AUTOUPDATE false), 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
