[2055] in NetBSD-Development
NetBSD-Athena 8.2 Officially Desupported
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon May 28 20:04:35 2001
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:31 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
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SIPB NetBSD-Athena 8.2, based on NetBSD 1.3.3 (23 Dec 1998), is being
officially desupported by SIPB. This means that locker software may no
longer be built for NetBSD, and that patch releases of NetBSD-Athena
will no longer be made. Future security holes and known vulnerabilities
will not be fixed, nor will announcements of them be made. We are
desupporting SIPB NetBSD-Athena because no work has been done on the
project recently and the age of the software is creating problems for
users and maintainers.
At the present time SIPB does not have an updated release of NetBSD-
Athena, though there are plans for a future release based on a more
current version of Athena and NetBSD. When the new release is
available, mail will be sent to netbsd-announce.
We suggest that current NetBSD-Athena users install Linux-Athena 8.4.
Linux-Athena, based on Redhat 6.2 Linux, is an up-to-date and MIT
Information Systems supported version of Athena. It is the same
version of Athena running on the Dell machines in the clusters. SIPB
has made available an installer for Linux-Athena which will work on a
wide variety of hardware configurations. Before installing, any data
stored on the local NetBSD-Athena machine should be backed up. If data
is not backed up, extreme care should be taken when partitioning the
disk for Linux-Athena. For more information and instructions on
installing Linux-Athena, see http://www.mit.edu/~linux/
We hope that your experience with NetBSD-Athena has been a good one.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact the SIPB
NetBSD development group as <netbsd-dev@mit.edu>, or the SIPB more
generally at <sipb@mit.edu> or x3-7788.
Richard Tibbetts
for SIPB NetBSD-dev
