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Red Hat-Athena 4.2 is released!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Jan 12 19:22:31 1998
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Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, sipb-office@MIT.EDU,
software-announce@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 12 Jan 1998 19:15:51 -0500
After far too many months of development and procrastination,
linux-dev@mit.edu is pleased to announce the release of Red Hat-Athena
4.2.
To install Red Hat-Athena 4.2, follow the directions in "Installing
Red Hat-Athena Linux on MITnet", available online as
<http://web.mit.edu/linux/redhat/linux-net-install-html/rh-net-install.html>
and <http://web.mit.edu/linux/redhat/linux-net-install.ps>, and on
paper in the SIPB office (W20-557). Note that our reorganization of
the Athena packages unfortunately makes upgrading from previous
releases nontrivial; we apologize for the inconvenience.
Please note that the recommended way to enable remote access to your
machine is to run
echo /usr/athena/bin/access_on >> /etc/athena/reactivate.local
(This came up a lot among beta testers.)
To report bugs in this release, run sendbug on your machine.
Enjoy!
New features:
-------------
Reorganized Athena packages, with support for running almost all
Athena software directly out of AFS (to save disk space.)
A TeX/Metafont installation almost exactly like Athena's.
Transcript (the PostScript-manipulation programs installed on Athena)
New/improved versions of the kernel, XFree86, Emacs, AFS, and more.
Other stuff I'm probably forgetting.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
