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Re: ["Naomi B. Schmidt" ] Notes from 1/11/99 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jan 12 22:06:06 1999
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Jan 1999 18:15:52 EST."
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:05:54 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Naomi's minute-taking may have been slightly biased in favor of not
changing the current model. Basically, there isn't a much in the way
of IS doing a cluster-capable Athena Linux port just like we've done
ports to other operating systems, but some issues come up because we
will appear to be "just on the verge of" to being able to do a pile of
things which are actually pretty difficult, such as supporting Athena
on every random piece of PC hardware which students show up with, or
supporting Athena on the same machine as a Windows installation.
We might wind up punting on some or all of those issues, but the
minutes made that look a little more set in stone than I would have
expected based on the conversation.
> Possible strategy: Hold out some renewal money in FY2000 so that we
> can roll out a small number of Linux cluster machines during IAP2001
I think this was a typo, and she meant IAP2000. (There would be no
reason to hold onto FY2000 renewal money for IAP2001, which begins six
months after FY2000 ends.)
