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1 August 2003 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Aug 1 13:00:59 2003
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:03:20 -0400
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 1 August 2003
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
Last Month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.2.
PROGRESS: Deploy new 9.2 based installers for Solaris and Linux
DELAYED: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
DONE: Develop RedHat 9-based Linux miniroot.
PROGRESS: Develop Athena 9.2 knfs port.
PROGRESS: Evaluate laptop hardware for Athena recommendations.
DONE: Evaluate desktop hardware for Athena recommendations if any
arrives from IBM or HP.
PROGRESS: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock
Red
Hat Linux".
DONE: Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces.
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
Community Milestone Met:
DONE: Athena 9.2 Public release targeted for July 14. (Delivered on
target date!)
DONE: Produce Linux Athena desktop hardware recommendation for annual
renewal.
Other Accomplishments:
* Delivered user release notes.
* Updated Athena Pocket Reference Guide.
* Developed code for Authenticated SMTP mail submission to meet
impending MIT Net requirements.
* Integrated Evolution 1.4 into the release (target deployment in patch
release 1st week in August.)
* Integrated Mozilla 1.4 into the release (target deployment in patch
release 1st week in August.)
* Developed installer for AFS client configured for MIT, for
stand-alone Red Hat 9.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.2.
OLD: Deploy new 9.2 based installers for Solaris and Linux
OLD: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
OLD: Develop Athena 9.2 knfs port.
OLD: Evaluate laptop hardware for Athena recommendations.
OLD: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock Red
Hat Linux".
OLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
NEW: Integrate into the Athena release, the developed friendly way to
go on/off net or switch interfaces.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Athena 9.2 patch release containing Mozilla 1.4, Evolution 1.4, and
support for native 9.2 installs (for both Linux and Solaris) targeted
for August 4.
Deploy native 9.2 installers for both platforms.
Issues:
We continue to have more of our share of window manager bugs because
the sawfish window manager has become marginalized.
It continues to be extra effort to make GNOME software work properly
under Solaris.
Finding some appropriate way to get sound working on the new hardware.
It is, at present, unclear how the presently existing driver support
will get back ported to the version of Red Hat currently in use.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
We dropped the old method of machine counting as of July 1, 2003.
We dropped accounting for SGI with the official de-support on July 1,
2003.
We re-formatted the machine counts for clearer display of the count
over time.
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Method: On install, machines get a unique ID. Each day every system
reports its existance to a central syslog. This method over-counts
systems installed multiple times. Systems running Athena than 9.0 or
earlier are not counted.
systype 4/2003 5/2003 6/2003 7/2003 Delta
linux: 753 756 744 766 +22
sun: 824 786 784 842 +58
