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Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sun Mar 22 15:31:08 2009
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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I used Debathena with Xandros (a Debian derivative) on an Eee PC early
last term, and it worked fine, so I suspect the same is true of Linux
Mint. I'd be interested to hear your experiences with Linux Mint, although
it wouldn't be a development priority.
To clarify a bit on the release date, the "Debathena Beta" verbiage refers
more to the Athena 10 project, i.e., rolling it out on all cluster
systems. The software has been released for personal machines and in use
since around 2007.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi Antony -
> We've never heard of anybody using Debathena with Linux Mint. Since
> Mint appears to be very heavily based on Ubuntu (it looks like they use
> Ubuntu's packages by default in most cases), it seems like it should
> work fine, assuming you line up the right Ubuntu release with the right
> Mint release. We'd certainly be interested in hearing about what sort of
> problems you run into, but this is probably one of those cases where, if
> it breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
>
> As for the "release date", Debathena doesn't really have a release date
> - development is more or less always ongoing. Most development currently
> is focused on the rollout of Debathena to the Athena clusters across
> campus. There are approximately 20 cluster machines around campus that
> are currently part of the "Debathena Beta" program, and Debathena should
> be deployed to all of the Athena cluster workstations some time this summer.
>
> - Evan
>
> Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a quick question about Debathena. Can Debathena be installed
>> and run without any problems on a machine running Linux Mint (since
>> Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu)?
>>
>> Also is there a projected release date for Debathena? I remember a
>> long time ago that the old Athena 10 site said it would be done by
>> IAP, but it's way past IAP now.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antony Nguyen
>>
>
