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Athena 9.1 alpha release for Solaris, Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 9 17:50:36 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:50:32 -0400
Message-Id: <200204092150.RAA05375@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
The Athena 9.1 alpha testing period begins some time probably this
evening, whenever the next DCM is after hesreq gets to my Hesiod
requests.
As always, the alpha release is not for machines which can't be
reinstalled to deal with problems. And there's no guarantee that
there won't be serious bugs which interfere with your work.
As always, you have to manually update your machine to an alpha
release; it won't happen automatically.
I know of a few cosmetic bugs, but report them anyway if you notice
them. (Report bugs to testers@mit.edu.) Some functionality isn't
quite done yet, particularly related to email clients; I'll get that
in as quickly as possible. (Specifically, pine should be there but
doesn't have the front-end script to avoid eiting sipb pine users, and
evolution is there but isn't pointed to by the mail icon, and also
still needs a few more integration changes and probably a lot of
bugfixes.)
The IRIX alpha release will hopefully follow in less than a week,
possibly much sooner.
To update a Linux machine to 9.1 after the Hesiod updates go through,
do a console login as root and run:
update_ws 9.1
For Solaris, instead run:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sun4sys-91
update_ws
Alpha Linux machines are:
atrophel
calcite
cheshire-cat
cutter-john
frank-n-furter
guano
hexahedron
hodag
n42-253-1
pothole
Alpha Solaris machines are:
allegretto
brad-majors
central
dale
emacs-makes-a-computer-slow
pinocchio
shock-treatment
spatula-city
thankyou
the-colour-of-magic
