[0162]  daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron) resnet_planning 07/15/93 20:33 (67 lines)
Subject: FYI: Linux
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From: dbaron@MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 20:33:35 EDT


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From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
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   Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 11:34:44 EST
   From: cec@MIT.EDU (Cecilia d'Oliveira)

   Ted, which Athena programs is SIPB porting to Linux?

The short answer is "all of them".  They are trying to port everything
that the development group might have to do if they were asked to port
the Athena environment to a new platform --- everything (except third
party software like Saber) that might be found in /srvd.

Mark Eichin is acting as the release engineer, and is compiling the
programs that either no one in SIPB use (like mwm) or that is too
painful for anyone to be willing to work on it (like MH).  This is a
critical position to fill in a volunteer effort like SIPB's.  :-)

It's current status is that it is almostly completely done at this
point, and they are planning to have this done by the end of the summer,
so that SIPB can make this available to the incoming Freshman.  The
packaging which they are working on would only require distribution of a
single DOS diskette; a student with a PC and an ethernet drop would be
able to use this diskette to install Linux over the network.

One problem is that while John Carr is working on an AFS client port to
Linux (and he is doing this without referring to Transarc code), it will
not be ready in time.  Hence, the SIPB release is planning on using the
AFS/NFS translator.  However, the current AFS/NFS translator will not be
able to support the load if the SIPB Athena release becomes really
popular.  SIPB is willing to run a separate AFS/NFS translator just for
Resnet Linux users, but they will need hardware from DCNS.
I think some discussions have been made between SIPB and Kim's group,
but I have not been part of those negotiations, so I don't know where we
stand on this.

Michael Barrow has prepared a one-page report on what SIPB is planning
on doing; it is is focused on what the potential impact of CSS might be,
but it is a good description of what the SIPB Linux development team is
doing.  I am not formally involved with that team, but I am tracking its
progress, and I am trying to make sure they are communicating with the
appropriate people within DCNS and I/S.

							- Ted

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