[3239] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 17 15:20:47 2002
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:20:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: George Milder <gmilder@cats.ucsc.edu>
cc: <release-team@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, George Milder wrote:
> I'm the sysadmin at UCSC for our Athena/AFS configuration. I would like
> to get information regarding upgrading from SunOS 4.1.4 to Solaris 8.
I'm afraid we don't have much experience here (we've never done SunOS to
Solaris upgrades), and if we did it probably wouldn't be very
transferrable.
> I see on the MIT web pages that there is a new version of Athena. How
> can I get this?
Athena isn't really an exported product; it's the name of an internal
computing environment. Parts of the infrastructure are released in source
code form (athena-dist.mit.edu:pub/ATHENA for most of it,
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ for krb5), and most of our source tree is
readable (/afs/dev.mit.edu/source/src-current), but there's no packaged
product for other sites to use. The environment you have there was set up
by people like Jim Haynes and Jonathan Kamens who had specialized
knowledge about the software used in Athena; it sounds like you may want
to think about migrating to more standard or supported infrastructure if
you don't have people with that skill set any more.
Sorry we can't be of more help.
--Greg Hudson
MIT Athena Release Engineer
