[924] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Third Party Linux software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Tue Jan 31 08:12:33 1995
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU, ellis@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU,
warlord@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, ppt@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:46:25 EST."
<199501302346.SAA18557@glacier.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 08:10:52 EST
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Hi Greg -
>Hi, I'm glad to hear you're moving forward on this. I'd like to clear
>up one misconception:
>
>> I have been informed that the appropriate locker is linux.
>
>Our primary goal for the Linux port (and the NetBSD port) is to allow
>these machines to be as close as possible to Athena workstations.
>For instance, the way people should run Maple should be just as it is
>on an Athena workstation:
>
> add maple
> maple
When Alex said that "he had been informed ...", he was referring to
information that I had given him based on the decision that has been made by
PPT regarding Linux versions of third party software. The reason we decided
to put the Linux software in the linux locker rather than in the maple,
matlab, ... lockers was so that this would lessen the expectation on the
part of the user that this software was supported to the same degree and
extent by IS as the versions of the software that run on our supported
platforms. If a user needs to say "add linux;maple" rather than "add
maple;maple", this puts the difference (and source) of support out front and
makes it more visible.
Naomi
