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Reminder: Athena 9.0 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 23 23:47:54 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:47:47 -0400
Message-Id: <200107240347.XAA05887@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
[Note: use the manual update instructions from this mail if you need
to do a manual update; there was an error in that part of the original
announcement.]
This is a reminder that 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 have identified those machines
during the coming few days and moved them into a special no-update
cluster, and notified most of the machine owners. (Some of the
relevant machines are old enough that they are no longer supported; we
will probably notify those machines' owners as well, although we won't
be providing assistance to help upgrade those machines.)
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 athena-sun4sys-90
update_ws
IRIX:
detach -a
attach -O athena-sgisys-90
update_ws
LINUX:
update_ws 9.0
