[5788] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena Linux installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Jun 6 17:30:50 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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Perhaps others will reply with additional help.
At this point the news is bad. Last year would have been a great
time to renew with Dell hardware. The Dell Optiplex GX 620 worked
like a charm with very little software fiddling.
Unfortunately the GX 620 is no longer available. Its successor, and
indeed the whole Dell product line has new video, new ethernet, and
new SATA disk interfaces that ALL require software updates. The work
to get those updates into Athena has begun but is not scheduled to
complete until some time in July.
-Bill
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William Cattey
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On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Garrett E Barter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our lab is considering purchasing 3-5 new Dell workstations with 64
> bit Dual Core Xeon processors. All of our lab workstations run
> Athena Linux. The last time we purchased new workstations was a
> couple of years ago and we struggled with the hardware support in
> the Athena installer. Since the installer has not been updated
> recently, I am concerned we are going to encounter similar
> problems. Are there plans in the works to update the Athena Linux
> installer? If so, when might that be available?
>
> Many thanks,
> Garrett
