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Reminder, Athena 9.0 early release tomorrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jun 24 19:12:36 2001
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:12:10 -0400
Message-Id: <200106242312.TAA07017@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: early-announce@mit.edu
CC: beta-announce@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
This is a reminder that Athena 9.0 early testing is currently
scheduled to begin tomorrow, Monday June 25. Early machines which are
set AUTOUPDATE=true will automatically update from 8.4 to 9.0 when the
early release begins; alpha and beta machines which have not been
updated to 9.0 will also update at this time.
If you need to update manually to 9.0 after it goes out, do a console
login (^P at the xlogin prompt) as root and run:
SOLARIS:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sun4sys-90
update_ws
IRIX:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sgisys-90
update_ws
LINUX:
update_ws 9.0
Linux machines are required to update to at least 8.4.25 before they
can update to 9.0. If you are running a release prior to 8.4.25,
update to 8.4.25, REBOOT (this is very important), and then update to
9.0.
There are release notes available via "help" under the "Release Notes"
entry. They're not long; the 9.0 release is a small number of large
changes. Chief among them is a rework of the Athena default login to
use sawfish, the GNOME panel, and gnome-terminal instead of mwm, dash,
and xterm.
