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Re: Debathena Hackathon report, May 2017
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lizhou Sha)
Sun May 7 17:07:16 2017
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From: Lizhou Sha <slz@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:06:10 -0400
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Forwarding to SIPB. Please help us test! If all goes well, you, too,
can have Ubuntu Xenial-based Athena dialups!
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Lizhou Sha <slz@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We did a lot of catch up at the hackathon yesterday, and we're please
> to report that we have built Debathena for Ubunty Yakkety (16.10) and
> Zesty (17.04)! Please take a moment to try out Debathena on those
> distros, especially for debathena-login and debathena-login-graphical.
> Note that the release is currently in yakkety- and zesty-proposed, so
> make sure to adjust your APT source lines as appropriate. Barring any
> critical install bugs, we will be migrating them to production later
> this week.
>
> In addition, we have fixed the last install bugs on Ubuntu Xenial.
> This means that we are very close to declaring Debathena for Xenial as
> released! Please also take a moment to try out everything up to
> debathena-workstation, especially with xenial-proposed enabled, so
> that we can feel better about pushing those fixes to production.
>
> Lastly, some critical packages such as ssh-server-config and machtype
> got updated for all distros, and the changes are currently in
> proposed. Please test them, especially on Trusty installs, so that we
> can feel better about pushing those changes out to the clusters.
>
> Best,
> Lizhou
> on behalf of Debathena Team
>
> --
> Lizhou Sha
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Department of Physics
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Lizhou Sha
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics
