[177] in DeathTongue Changes
RE: DeathTongue Stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wang)
Fri Oct 15 15:00:34 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:59:36 -0400
To: licks@MIT.EDU
From: David Wang <d_wang@MIT.EDU>
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>The question then becomes Professional or Server?
I say Professional.
Students are supposed to be running workstations to integrate into Athena.
If they want to run Server variants, their needs are already extraordinary
and we don't need to support/test it. If they are ambitious enough to run
Server variants, they should be able to take care of any of its problems;
else they should not run it.
Also, for testing to be realistic, DT should be Professional.
>Now, for something more immediately useful. Last time I checked,
>HostExplorer sucked. SecrureCRT let's you do ssh. That's why it's good
>to have it.
In that case, we should install both SecureCRT and HostExplorer.
SecureCRT does not have kerberized Telnet.
HostExplorer does not have SSH.
The needs of both are completely polar, and we need both. i.e. I'm a PC
user and SSH means nothing to me (I telnet). But, I can imagine my friend
with a Linux at home where SSH is important and telnet meaningless.
>Finally, what the heck are people using dt for these days? AFAIK, it
>serves no purpose except to have stuff installed on it once in a while.
I'd like to know this, too. From what I've seen the past week, you've
pretty much hit the spot.
>If that is indeed the case, I'd like to become some kind of czar of dt
>operations and make the machine into a standalone w2k development
>workstation where people can do pismere-releated work.
That sounds good, though it seems to limit effective use of DT to those that
are involved with Pismere. There are people just want to play around and
get comfortable with the OS...
- --David
MIT CS M.Eng/Math
Class of 1999
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