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Re: Draft of Laptop Athena web page.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Tue Sep 17 00:37:55 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:37:52 -0400
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Bill: The page summarizing Linux Athena for Laptops is succinct and
honest. The only suggestion I would make is to pull the comments you've
made about what you're doing to try to achieve various desired
capabilities together into a section titled: Linux Athena Laptop Futures
(or something similar). Into that put the comments about switching
ethernet adapters, disconnected operations, automatic partitioning, etc.
If you have time frames that you're reasonably confident in achieving,
then so indicate them, otherwise leave them out or simply say 'second
quarter '02' .
Regards,
Phil
On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
>
>
> http://web.mit.edu/release/www/laptop-athena.html
>
> Is a draft of the up-to-the-minute lore of Linux Athena on laptops.
> It says that 3 out of 4 work if you partition manually.
> It says that disconnected operation does not work at all.
> It gives lore on getting past various rough spots.
>
> The automatic partitioning portion of the Athena is under active
> development, and is expected to improve in a few days.
>
> Disconnected operation is also under active development and is expected
> to improve in a few weeks.
>
> Please review this page and let's decide where it needs to go from here:
> What changes need to be made?
> Should the page or some derivation of it be given to end-users?
>
> -wdc
>
>
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
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Bill: The page summarizing Linux Athena for Laptops is succinct and
honest. The only suggestion I would make is to pull the comments
you've made about what you're doing to try to achieve various desired
capabilities together into a section titled: Linux Athena Laptop
Futures (or something similar). Into that put the comments about
switching ethernet adapters, disconnected operations, automatic
partitioning, etc.
If you have time frames that you're reasonably confident in achieving,
then so indicate them, otherwise leave them out or simply say 'second
quarter '02' .
Regards,
Phil
On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Bill Cattey wrote:
<excerpt>
http://web.mit.edu/release/www/laptop-athena.html
Is a draft of the up-to-the-minute lore of Linux Athena on laptops.
It says that 3 out of 4 work if you partition manually.
It says that disconnected operation does not work at all.
It gives lore on getting past various rough spots.
The automatic partitioning portion of the Athena is under active
development, and is expected to improve in a few days.
Disconnected operation is also under active development and is expected
to improve in a few weeks.
Please review this page and let's decide where it needs to go from
here:
What changes need to be made?
Should the page or some derivation of it be given to end-users?
-wdc
</excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Phillip D. Long,
Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Masschusetts Avene (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax:
617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139</fontfamily>
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