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SIPB Installer for Athena Linux Coming Soon
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Linux is a freely distributable implementation of UNIX. At MIT, our
public computer clusters run a standard set of software known as
Athena.  You may have noticed Linux-Athena workstations in the public
clusters.  These are Intel X86-based workstations running a port of
Athena to the Red Hat distribution of Linux that is maintained by
Information Systems. The software running on those workstations is
available to the MIT community, but it is currently difficult to
install it on hardware which is not identical to that which is in
the clusters.

SIPB is working to modify the installer shipped with Red Hat Linux
to make installing a Linux-based Athena system on your personal
computer relatively straightforward.
We had hoped to have this installer ready in time for the
start of the academic year, but unfortunately it is still in testing.
It should be ready in a few weeks.

If you would like to be notified when the installer is ready, subscribe
to the mailing list {\tt linux-announce} by running, at the
{\tt athena\%} prompt,
\begin{verbatim}
        blanche linux-announce -a $USER
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% XXX I'm not sure this information is even necessary, but this version
%     flows better at least.
This list is also used for important announcements related to 
older releases of Athena for Red Hat Linux that were entirely
maintained by SIPB. Those releases are based on older versions of
Red Hat and Athena software so we recommend that you wait for
our new installer.

If you are buying a computer, and are thinking of running Linux on it, you
can buy a machine just like the cluster ones, or you can look at the list of
PCs that MIT recommends for Windows users. See
\begin{verbatim}
        http://web.mit.edu/is/desktop/saws_configs.html
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for the cluster configuration,
and
\begin{verbatim}
        http://web.mit.edu/is/desktop/pcadmin.html
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for the MIT recommended hardware. Any of the listed configurations will
work fine with our forthcoming installer.

If you already have a computer and only
need to purchase an Ethernet card to connect it to MIT's network, please
see
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        http://web.mit.edu/is/desktop/pcether.html
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If you'd like to learn more about Red Hat Linux, a useful web
site is
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        http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl62.html
\end{verbatim}
It contains a frequently asked questions list and an introduction to
Linux. Note that you should not install Linux on your computer
until our installer is released. For more information about Athena, 
please see {\tt http://web.mit.edu/olh/}.

Meanwhile, we'd still like to hear from you.  Feel free to stop by our
office (W20-557) and ask any questions you might have, or email
{\tt sipb@mit.edu}.

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