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Re: IS&T should support Ubuntu for TSM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Jan 5 10:14:32 2009
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
From: Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:13:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <athena10:759@unknown-discuss-server> (Mitchell E. Berger's
message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:53 -0500")
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Since TSM is recommended to students, I think it's very important that
> IS&T be supporting it on the platform we're about to recommend that
> students install on their computers with Athena 10. Some conversation
> on zephyr indicates that it probably works, but that release-team should
> check this out. Then we should try to get the support to be official
> as soon as possible.
Hi Mitch,
One awkwardness is that the TSM vendor (IBM) does not support
TSM on Ubuntu. The IS&T page showing supported distributions
is essentially a recopying of IBM's "software requirements" list.
The supported linux distributions for TSM 5.5 are posted at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/ans5000031.htm#lin86sw
It will be hard to get IS&T to officially support a software
confuguration that the vendor does not.
It might be possible to write "unsupported" documentation that
describes how to configure TSM on Ubuntu, if TSM does work.
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
