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[release-announce] IS&T Announces Beta Release of Debathena Precise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jul 26 10:04:24 2012
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
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Good morning,
The Athena Release Team has been hard at work this summer preparing the
newest version of Debathena, based on Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise"). This
version is now available for beta testing. It will be rolled out to 8
workstations throughout campus (7 in the W20-575 cluster, and one
Quickstation in W20) over the weekend. Users interested in testing may
also install it on their own machines (physical or virtual), though we do
not recommend installing it on mission-critical infrastructure at this
time. Users who choose to participate in testing should read
http://debathena.mit.edu/testing for more information and send their
feedback to <testers@mit.edu>. Please note that the PXE (network-based)
installed still defaults to Natty, and testers will need to follow the
prompts to select 'precise' as their distribution.
Preliminary release notes can be found in the MIT Knowledge Base at:
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/CQCKC
We will be updating them between now and the release date.
The final release is scheduled for early August, and another announcement
will be sent to this list in advance of the release.
As with all Athena releases, a downgrade is not possible without wiping
and re-installing the workstation, so users who rely on Athena for their
daily work and/or use software not maintained or installed by IS&T
(including software installed in course lockers) are strongly encouraged
to make use of this period to test their software with the new version to
ensure compatibility.
If you are receiving this e-mail, but are no longer responsible for Athena
workstations or software in your department, lab, or center, please
forward this message to your colleagues and encourage them to sign up for
this list at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/release-announce
Cordially,
Jonathan Reed
for the Athena Release Team
