Another distribution?? But why?

[Derek Atkins]

John Jannotti <jj at lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> Do you know what the plans are for the future?  Will Linux-Athena become a
> slightly modified Fedora?

Athena-Dev is looking at the options and haven't made a decision, yet.
They may just move to using Fedora, they may move to SuSE, they may
move to Debian...  Ask me again in April and I should have a better
answer for you.

>   jj

-derek

>
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
>> 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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