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Re: running athena on top of redhat 7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Feb 21 12:07:14 2001
Message-Id: <200102211707.MAA12011@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: Salil Soman <ssoman@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:20:19 EST."
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:07:06 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Salil,
At the time, Athena isn't available for use with Redhat 7. It's
currently expected that the next full Athena release will be based on
Redhat 7; the net full Athena release should occur this summer, in July
or August. For now, your options appear to be:
* Wait until Redhat 7 is supported.
* Attempt to install the Athena 8.4 RPMs, which are built
for Redhat 6.2. This is very unsupported and may or may
not work. It's unlikely we'll be able to provide
assistance if you encounter problems.
* If you need to use some X applications while booted into
Linux, you might consider logging into x.dialup.mit.edu
via ssh, and running your applications there remotely.
Note that x.dialup isn't intended for computationally
intensive tasks, so you shouldn't run Mathematica and
other such applications, but basic Athena productivity
(mail, zephyr, printing, etc.) should be just fine.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Garry
