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Re: Release Team Agenda, Friday 9/10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 7 20:05:15 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:05:08 -0400
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>,
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
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> That said I have some concerns about this. The two things that come
> to mind are: 1) that the dialups are generally not supposed to be for
> computationally intensive work, and I'm a little worried about
> pointing all ProE users at them (especially if there's only one) and
> 2) This would result in us having to maintain two different dialup
> configurations long term, which while it doesn't quite double the
> amount of work required, it comes really close. We can probably
> arrange something short term (it's not like I've had time to upgrade
> the dialups to lucid yet anyway), but what sort of timeframe were you
> expecting to need this for?
Another alternative which we can discuss at the meeting is designating an easily identifiable portion of W20 for 32-bit machines and installing 32-bit Lucid on them.
-Jon
