[2803] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: idea: desupport rha4.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Oct 5 14:40:23 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:36:14 -0400 (EDT)
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2800] in SIPB_Linux_Development"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
jmorzinz> Does it sound reasonable to say something like
jmorzinz> "RedHat Athena 4.2 won't be supported after the end of 1999.
jmorzinz> We don't expect things to suddenly break, but we will stop testing
jmorzinz> software on that platform, and may not fix any new bugs that arise."
Sounds pretty good to me, although I expect i386_linux2 locker
software to fall by the wayside fairly quickly. I guess that's fairly
consistant with your statement. If we have Y2K compliance info, we
might want to include that
sit> There's always linux-announce. Also, I don't know how many other
sit> systems use /afs/athena/system/config/motd/login.77 for their
sit> motd. Assuming RH-A 4.2 is the last 7.7 platform running xlogin out
sit> there, we could ask ops to change that for us.
Decstations, 7.7 suns, and *cough* pickled still use this motd file.
I'd prefer not to change it for the linux release specifically,
although I've been meaning to put together enough Y2K info for each
platform to put something in the idle MOTD that was specific to the
Athean version.
--
Jonathon
