[16547] in athena10
Re: Ubuntu version of Athena workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue May 14 10:02:54 2019
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 10:02:06 -0400
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Hi Milo,
Welcome to MIT!
As you might have seen from the Debathena home page, there are 4
"flavors" of Debathena: standard, login, workstation, and cluster.
Each flavor is a superset of the one before it. Maintaining
debathena-workstation and above is basically a full time job, and most
of the Debathena maintainers have their own full time jobs. Anecdotal
evidence suggests you should be able to install Xenial (16.04).
You've probably noticed the installer is just a shell script, so you
can edit it appropriately, or you can use the manual installation
method[1], if you have previous experience installing and maintaining
Debian-based distributions. I believe there are some things that
don't quite work with Bionic yet, but hopefully someone else on this
list can chime in.
If you're interested in contributing to the project when you arrive on
campus, feel free to swing by any of SIPB's various orientation
events, and someone should be able to introduce you to the current
student maintainers.
-Jon
[1]
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=152597582
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:40 PM <iamroot@mit.edu> wrote:
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> Hello!
>
> My name's Milo, I'm a prefrosh and I've been following SIPB for some time. After I got accepted, I went to install Debathena on my 18.04 desktop only to find that the packages were only supported for Ubuntu 14 LTS.
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> That made sense to me, and I actually did downgrade to 14 to install the debathena packages, but when I SSHed into the dialup athena workstations I saw that these were running Ubuntu 18.04. Is there any way I can upgrade to the newer (and more secure now that 14 has reached EOL) version and use whatever metapackage the HOTD machine uses?
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> It's possible I missed an article on this in my research but it seems like nobody's really talking about what to do now that 14 is essentially obsolete for anything security related? Anyway, I really appreciate your help and look forward to meeting y'all this fall!
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> All the best,
>
> Milo '23
