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Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Mar 24 16:22:39 2009
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:21:39 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@mit.edu>
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Oh, whoops - I mentioned this at some point when I was drafting my
reply, and then accidentally pulled it out.
You'll have to use the manual installation method, instead of our
installer script - the documentation is at
http://debathena.mit.edu/advanced-installation
- Evan
Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
> I actually can't install Debathena on Mint. The terminal tells me that
> I'm not running a current release of Ubuntu or Debian. I have Felicia
> running (6 which is based on Intrepid, so it should've worked).
>
> Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>> 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.
>>
