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Re: Athena release team meeting tomorrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Oct 8 18:48:24 2007
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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:47:41 -0400
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In talking to Garry on Friday, he mentioned the issue of desktop-server
coordination and the desirability of keeping the software in use on each
in synch so as to render local development efforts somewhat less painful.
While I think the current prevailing attitude around here could be
characterized as "we like RHEL for servers but we can't stand it on the
desktop anymore", have we thought about trying to drag anyone running
servers along with us on our presumed defection to Ubuntu? (I've been
running it as a server on a Sun 220R for a while and have been really
impressed with the degree to which it Just Works, even on a 64-bit sparc
platform.) Perhaps Garry will be at the meeting with more on this.
This also raises the idea (at least to me, though note that I'm home
being very sick and may have an apalling lack of judgement here) of
creating an Ubuntu-based Athena 10 (or is it "Athena X"?) for the sparc
platform, perhaps for some cluster machines and definitely for
non-cluster Sun users who neither want to molder in no-upgrade land nor
buy new hardware quite yet. This seems potentially quite easy once we're
building under the same operating system on another architecture, though
I'm not sure if there's any hope of binary compatability with, say,
locker-based Solaris software.
