[2253] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Linux Athena questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Oct 18 22:37:52 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), svalente@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 Oct 1998 22:37:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:32:17 -0400 (EDT)"
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> aggravating. But I'll argue for the other side. With the advent of
> AFS 3.5 support for Linux, IS may be reconsidering support of a Linux
> port of Athena, and will probably consider the following points in
Cool!
> (Plus, of course, that SIPB has already mostly done a port to Red Hat
> Linux 5.1 and there would be more unknowns if we redid it for Debian,
> and there are existing customers of SIPB's port who are using Red Hat,
> but those are conversion costs which you aren't interested in.)
In practice, that's enough to make me stick to Red Hat...what I meant
was that if Athena had never been ported to Linux and I wanted to
produce a port now, I might well base it on Debian rather than Red
Hat.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
