Another distribution?? But why?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Grant Young <granty at bellatlantic.net> writes:

> I haven't personally used the Linux-Athena distribution but I did have
> experience trying to use the earlier Athena versions with non-Athenized
> applications (like Oracle) and it was pretty much a disaster.  Project
> Athena solves the workstation application and file server maintenance
> problem for MIT very, very well and their programmers do an amazing job
> keeping things up to date.  The thing that makes Athena work well is its
> elegantly engineered rigidity.  But in my experience the tweaks and
> improvements they put in for their environment usually mess up services
> and interfaces expected by many applications.  YMMV.

I can wholeheartedly say that this has changed significantly in the
past, oh five+ years..  I suspect it's been that long since you've
tried?  The Linux-Athena "distro" is really Red Hat with a few
modified or replaced RPMS.  But it still is Red Hat at the core.

-derek
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