[154] in Zephyr Mailing List
Re: zephyr for linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Mar 2 11:23:00 1995
To: davknav@MIT.EDU
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 1995 01:36:18 EST."
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 11:19:52 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
First, for all non-MIT people on this list, this question is about
the MIT zephyr development locker, so you can ignore this.
David,
The zephyr locker is for development of zephyr; it is not meant as a
place for users to get zephyr binaries. Zephyr is an integral part of
the Athena Environment, and the binaries are part of the Athena
distribution.
Any binary directories in /mit/zephyr were there for testing purposes
only, and users would have to specifically set their paths to get to
those binaries. Since the default add puts new paths at the end, users
would get /usr/athena/bin/z* first in their paths if they just did an
"add zephyr".
Third, the zephyr locker is constantly (well, somewhat constantly ;-)
under development and changing. If anything _were_ to be installed
there, it would be highly unstable.
This is why SIPB puts out a zephyr package; so you can install zephyr
on your machine in a simple, stable way. I think there is a plan to
create an Athena system pack for Linux in the near future, so you
don't have to install Athena yourself. However most of Athena only
takes up 13 MB of disk space, which isn't very much, so there really
isn't much of a reason _not_ to install it.
Does this answer your question?
-derek
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
Home page: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/home_page.html
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