[7930] in testers
Debathena beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Agrawal)
Fri Mar 13 17:34:16 2009
From: Rohan Agrawal <agrawalr@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:33:13 -0400
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Hello Debathenians,
I am a random person who used one of the debathena beta cluster
computers today, and I made a couple of observations that I thought I
might as well share. I understand of course that everything has been
planned out and that there is a good reason for why things are the way
they are, so I apologize if any of my comments are silly.
1. Why has it been decided not to install acroread locally? I
imagine many people would prefer it to evince, and running it
from the locker is quite slow.
2. I noticed that the java plugin installed is icedtea6-plugin,
even though the sun jdk is installed. Why not use
sun-java6-plugin to be consistent?
3. The version of eclipse in intrepid (and jaunty) is very old, and
it being installed was a bit confusing. Maybe just require that
eclipse be run from the locker?
Thanks,
Rohan
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Hello Debathenians,<BR>
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I am a random person who used one of the debathena beta cluster computers today, and I made a couple of observations that I thought I might as well share. I understand of course that everything has been planned out and that there is a good reason for why things are the way they are, so I apologize if any of my comments are silly.<BR>
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Why has it been decided not to install acroread locally? I imagine many people would prefer it to evince, and running it from the locker is quite slow.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>I noticed that the java plugin installed is icedtea6-plugin, even though the sun jdk is installed. Why not use sun-java6-plugin to be consistent?
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>The version of eclipse in intrepid (and jaunty) is very old, and it being installed was a bit confusing. Maybe just require that eclipse be run from the locker?
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Thanks,<BR>
Rohan
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