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Re: Concerns about MIT Software Distribution page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Nov 29 16:53:55 1999
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:53:48 -0500
To: Marshall Vale <mjv@mit.edu>, Robyn Fizz <fizz@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sw-release-team@mit.edu, is-home@mit.edu, goguen@mit.edu
Robyn
After reading Marshall's mail I went to look at the PC page. The Kerberos
links there are also I think not correct. As Marshall says, Kclient should
not be a separate item. It should not appear on the PC page. Mink will
do. Besides the product sheet has all sorts of Mac references.
I would be much happier if all the kerberos links took people to
...is/help/kerberos/ From there they can get to either KfM or MinK and
they start at the generic page. Same for Ktelnet.
Also on the product summary sheet for MinK, it says that it requires Leash.
That is not correct. In fact that is what MinK installs.
Susan
At 4:35 PM -0500 11/29/1999, Marshall Vale wrote:
>At 11:51 AM -0500 11/18/99, Robyn Fizz wrote:
>>Just to round out the picture, within a short time frame, the Mac and PC
>>links will be replaced by the ones found on
>>http://training.mit.edu/products/test.html.
>
>So I've looked over the Mac section of the pages. This is purely
>commentary on the information contained in the database.
>
>- The section on Kerberos for the Macintosh and KClient isn't
>correct. KClient should not be a separate item from Kerberos for
>Macintosh. They certainly shouldn't have different categories.
> There is no such version as 1.0.1 for Kerberos for Macintosh. The
>system requirements for 2.0.2 are actually for KClient itself, not
>the general package. You want to use the requirements listed for
>1.0.1 for 2.0.2. The description for KfM only refers to the Kerberos
>v5 pieces; it should refer to both v4(KClient) and v5 components.
>
>- Disinfectant should be removed.
>
>- The only 2.x version of Eudora released officially at MIT was 2.1.4.
>
>- Macintosh System 7.5.3 should be removed from the list. 7.6.1 is
>the last we officially support. The entries for 8 should be
>consolidated into 8.x or explicitly list each version to be
>consistent.
>
>- The NCSA Telnet entry should be removed since BetterTelnet is
>there. At the very least, it's description should be pared down to
>something similar to the others.
>
>- At the least, Netscape Navigator 2.0.2 should be removed. Probably
>3.0 and 4.05 too.
>
>- Norton Utilities should be removed, Disk First Aid is good enough
>these days. Users not keeping up with upgrades of NU causes them more
>problems than any help it could possibly give and worse, gives them a
>false sense of security.
>
>- MacDiscuss should only list 1.2a2
>
>- Open Transport should be removed as it really is not a separate
>product anymore.
>
>- PageMaker should be removed.
>
>- Photoshop should be removed.
>
>- TechMail should be removed.
>
>- TechNotify should be removed.
>
>- White Knight should be removed.
>
>- Word Perfect should be removed.
>
>- ZTerm should be removed.
>
>This last bunch of products should be removed because no training
>goes on at the helpdesk for these products. We are doing a great
>disservice improperly advertising a knowledge base that doesn't truly
>exist in that channel. The goal should not be to recommend a product
>for every category under the sun but rather limit our selections to
>services that are critical for getting MIT work done for which we can
>commit the resources needed to support said services. I hardly think
>things like PageMaker, Photoshop and Word Perfect qualify these days.
>
>Marshall
