[1856] in athena10
Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antony H. Nguyen)
Wed Mar 25 11:54:48 2009
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:54:13 -0400
From: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@MIT.EDU>
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To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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I've installed Debathena workstation successfully on Linux Mint. Well,
successfully being me losing my mintmenu and having the regular Ubuntu
menu, having "Ubuntu" not recognize my GPU and having the resolution go
funky on me. But other than that, it loaded AFS perfectly fine, I saw
the Athena terminal, etc. Unfortunately, it wasn't to my taste so I
Evan Broder wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
--
Antony H. Nguyen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
