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Re: Debathena and 16.04 LTS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Myron L Freeman)
Tue Jun 20 10:09:04 2017
From: Myron L Freeman <fletch1@mit.edu>
To: Lizhou Sha <slz@mit.edu>
CC: Benjamin J Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:08:47 +0000
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OK. Thanks.
-Fletch
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 1:11 AM, Lizhou Sha <slz@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The 16.04 build has existed for quite a while, but we only got through
> with the preliminary bug squashing a couple months ago.
>
> SIPB has been running debathena-workstation for 16.04 on several of
> our office workstations, and it seems to be working just fine.
>
> debathena-cluster, of course, is entirely untested.
>
> Best,
> Lizhou
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:27:08AM -0400, Myron L Freeman wrote:
>>> How usable is Debathena on 16.04?
>>
>> It's only really existed for a month or two (in terms of the
>> packages being built and available in the repo), and the only
>> testing reports I've seen refer to -login-graphical. So, more
>> invasive metapackages may not be ready yet and you might want to do
>> a bit more testing before rolling things out to users.
>>
>> -Ben
>
>
>
> --
> Lizhou Sha
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Department of Physics
