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6 October 2004 Athena UNIX Platform Team Monthly Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Oct 6 13:53:40 2004
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:52:25 -0400
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 6 October 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:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
PROGRESS: Review, revise and publish document, "Differences between
Athena
Linux and stock Red Hat Linux".
DELAYED: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
CHANGED: Test Athena disconnected operation.
DONE: Investigate new 'Captive NTFS' driver for access to NT partitions
from Linux.
Alas, it is complex, slow, and we are powerless to improve it, so we
recommend against incorporating it. There are other options if there
really is demand for this
functionality.
PROGRESS: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
DELAYED: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA
servers.
DELAYED: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
Community Milestones Met:
Patch release containing security fixes, better font support for
Mozilla, and miscellaneous bug fixes.
Other Accomplishments:
* "Working On Athena" document updated.
* Worked with networking group to use the new outgoing-auth path for
authenticated email.
* Began integrating GNOME 2.8 into Athena release for next summer.
* Integrated but did not yet deploy Mozilla 1.7.3 which contains
security fixes.
* OLH documentation has begun transition to new IS&T look and feel.
* Small update to "Private Athena Workstation Owner's Guide".
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.
CHANGED: For Athena disconnected operation, craft fixes for issues
raised in testing and retest.
OLD: Produce new Athena installer with better SCSI support.
OLD: Produce mkserv SAMBA so that Athena systems can be SAMBA servers.
OLD: Improve Linux Athena installer documentation.
NEW: Finish integration of GNOME 2.8 into upcoming major release.
NEW: Publish revised email documentation containing pine tutorial from
old Athena minicourse.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release, target before Drop Date, containing:
Mozilla security patch.
Relevant updates from Red Hat Enterprise 3 Update 3, mostly security
patches and hardware compatibility enhancements.
Add java software development kit on Linux to local disk.
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 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 5/2004 6/2004 7/2004 8/2004 9/2994 Delta
LINUX 802 742 726 717 790 +73
SUN 722 681 706 716 674 -42
Summary Analysis: We expect the increase in Linux systems is because
systems are coming back on line for students returning from summer
vacation.
