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4 March 2004 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 4 March 2004
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.2.
Last Month's goals:
DELAYED: Review, revise and publish 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 with ifplugd.
PROGRESS: Implement prototype for installing Athena software on Solaris
with
Solaris package tools.
DONE: Work on resizing of Windows partition as part of Linux Athena
install.
DELAYED: Develop additional simple command-line tools for manipulating
mail in
IMAP. (Existing ways of doing seemingly simple things are rather
baroque.)
DELAYED: Test Athena disconnected operation.
PROGRESS: Decide which Linux platform for next Athena release.
DELAYED: Investigate new 'Captive NTFS' driver for access to NT
partitions from Linux.
DONE: Upgrade of Athena third party software subsystems.
DELAYED: Update LaTeX documentation
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Review, revise and publish 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 with ifplugd.
OLD: Implement prototype for installing Athena software on Solaris with
Solaris package tools.
OLD: Develop additional simple command-line tools for manipulating mail
in
IMAP. (Existing ways of doing seemingly simple things are rather
baroque.)
OLD: Test Athena disconnected operation.
OLD: Decide which Linux platform for next Athena release.
OLD: Investigate new 'Captive NTFS' driver for access to NT partitions
from Linux.
OLD: Update LaTeX documentation
NEW: Test new Athena Linux installer with resizing of Windows
partitions.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release during Spring Break with Sun patches, Mozilla 1.6 and
other small stuff. (March 22)
Athena 9.3 Alpha release targeted for April 1.
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
We are in crunch time for the new Athena release.
Any work not directly related to the Athena 9.3 release will be of low
priority and will be delayed until the new release work is done.
The lack of a signed Red Hat Enterprise contract is uncomfortable for
us.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
We're considering bringing OpenOffice to the local disk (using the
"local locker" framework) for Athena 9.3 if we have some sense that it
will not take unreasonable space.
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Method: On install, machines get a unique ID. Each day every system
reports its existence to a central syslog. This method over-counts
systems installed multiple times. Systems running Athena than 9.0 or
earlier are not counted.
SYSTYPE 10/2003 11/2003 12/2003 1/2004 2/2004 Delta
LINUX 827 815 783 768 803 +35
SUN 741 750 724 750 736 -14
Summary Analysis: About the same as last month.
