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1 October 2003 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Oct 1 14:26:01 2003
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:21:48 -0400
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 1 October 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: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
DELAYED: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock
Red
Hat Linux".
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
DELAYED: Integrate into the Athena release, the developed friendly way
to
go on/off net or switch interfaces.
DELAYED: Publish Athena laptop hardware recommendations.
DONE: Collect statistics on 4 GB multi-partition Suns.
DELAYED: Investigate installing Athena software on Solaris with Solaris
package tools.
DELAYED: Investigate upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Edition (scope,
timeframe, value, yes/no decision).
Community Milestone Met:
Patch release fixing install on Solaris, security patches for pine,
sshd and sendmail, as well as other fixes.
Other Accomplishments:
* Much time spent in bug fixing and security patching.
* Developed plan for maintaining TeX with less effort.
* Developed plan for local Java plug-in for better Mozilla performance.
* Developed and deployed fix for Linux install specifying network
address of DHCP.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Develop 9.2-based Solaris miniroot.
OLD: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock Red
Hat Linux".
OLD: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
OLD: Integrate into the Athena release, the developed friendly way to
go on/off net or switch interfaces.
OLD: Publish Athena laptop hardware recommendations.
OLD: Investigate installing Athena software on Solaris with Solaris
package tools.
OLD: Investigate upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Edition (scope,
timeframe, value, yes/no decision).
NEW: Work on resizing of Windows partition as part of Linux Athena
install.
NEW: Develop some simple command-line tools for manipulating mail in
IMAP. (Existing ways of doing seemingly simple things are rather
baroque.)
Next Community Milestone(s):
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
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 5/2003 6/2003 7/2003 8/2003 9/2003 Delta
linux 756 744 766 821 869 +48
sun 786 784 842 788 768 -20
Summary Analysis: It is possible that old Suns are being replaced with
new Linux boxes.
