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Re: Debathena and Linux Mint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Wed Mar 25 12:00:16 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: "Antony H. Nguyen" <anguyen@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Yeah, if you install the full graphical configuration it will try to use
your Athena desktop configuration. It sounds like you wanted to keep your
graphical configuration on this machine but just have access to Athena
services?
If that's your goal, you want to install the debathena-standard package
rather than debathena-workstation. If you only install
debathena-standard, it won't have any effect on the graphical
configuration. debathena-standard is the recommended Debathena
configuration for laptops.
-Tim Abbott
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
> 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
>
>
