[4268] in Release_7.7_team
Blue-sky idea: Athena on CD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Mar 24 12:48:44 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:48:39 -0500
I saw this go by on a SIPB list.
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:36, Sam Hartman wrote:
> William Hartnett (wjh@mit.edu) is working on a project to have an
> Athenized Knoppix CD. The idea is that you could stick in the CD and
> then log in as your Athena username and password onto a fresh machine.
The idea of Athena on a CD (with no need to touch the computer's hard
disk) seems like it might be a hack with great customer value, although
I suspect space constraints might force it to be a DVD. We may want to
look into this ourselves if we ever have some free resources.
