[1226] in athena10
Re: distinguish cluster from workstation machine on login screen?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Feb 27 15:34:55 2009
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:34:36 -0500
I believe this was one of the things we wanted to do was but the
metapackage name on the login screen along with the base operating
system version. However, there's no way to do this dynamically at
runtime, and I believe this was tabled until the summer.
-Jon
On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking that a cluster machine is sufficiently different from a
> workstation machine in more or less subtle ways that it might be a
> good
> idea to put the word "cluster" or "workstation" on the login screen,
> like
> maybe below "Welcome to Athena". Thoughts? Would it just confuse
> users?
>
> Alex
>
