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2 June 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: 2 June 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 9.3.
Last Month's goals:
DELAYED: Review, revise and publish document, "Differences between
Athena
Linux and stock Red Hat Linux".
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
PROGRESS: (Low priority background task) Develop additional simple
command-line tools for manipulating mail in IMAP. (Existing ways of
doing seemingly simple things are rather baroque.)
PROGRESS: Test Athena disconnected operation.
PROGRESS: Investigate new 'Captive NTFS' driver for access to NT
partitions from Linux.
DONE: Update LaTeX documentation
DONE: Rework Solaris Athena 9.3 install and integrity checker for the
new Sun package-based method.
PROGRESS: Produce stock answer for using SAMBA.
PROGRESS: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
DELAYED: Write User Release Notes for Athena 9.3.
PROGRESS: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
DONE: Produce updated "How to get Athena" web pages.
DELAYED: Get updated Solaris 9 source.
Community Milestones Met:
Other Accomplishments:
* Revised "Athena Dotfiles" and "Working on Athena" documents.
* Began looking at loaner laptop hardware.
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: (Low priority background task) 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: Investigate new 'Captive NTFS' driver for access to NT partitions
from Linux.
OLD: Produce stock answer for using SAMBA.
OLD: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
OLD: Write User Release Notes for Athena 9.3.
OLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA servers.
OLD: Get updated Solaris 9 source.
NEW: Verify knfs works with Athena 9.3.
NEW: Review and get deployed updated "How to get Athena" web pages.
NEW: Deploy new Solaris Athena 9.3 install and integrity checker.
NEW: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Athena 9.3 Early release re-targeted for June 7.
Athena 9.3 Public release targeted for July 7.
Bugfix patch release when next needed.
Issues:
We found out this month that our IBM Linux technical contact was
re-assigned and not replaced.
If there are problems, vendors other than IBM may end up doing better
for us.
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.
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 1/2004 2/2004 3/2004 4/2004 5/2004 Delta
LINUX 768 803 807 787 802 +15
SUN 750 736 752 724 722 -2
Summary Analysis: About the same as last month.
