Debathena

Ubuntu 12.04 ("Precise Pangolin") Support

Packages for Precise are currently available in the repository.
At this time, only debathena-standard and debathena-login are expected to work.
The Debathena installer does not yet support Precise, and will not until debathena-workstation is functional. Unless you have an urgent need to upgrade to Precise now, we encourage you to wait to wait until it is fully supported. Please check back later for updates.

E-mail will be sent to the release-announce mailing list once Precise is available for testing. We anticipate deploying Precise to the IS&T-maintained public clusters and workstations in early August.

Debathena is the technology powering the newest Athena workstations running Ubuntu Linux, as well as hundreds of Debian and Ubuntu desktops and laptops across MIT, by providing Athena workstation software via Debian packages and repositories.

On your personal computer, installing Debathena will give you easy access to the software and files in Athena AFS lockers, as well as to standard Athena commands and utilities. You can also install the set of packages for a private workstation or server with Athena accounts, or choose any set of of packages in between.

Debathena was created by SIPB, MIT's student computing group, and is now a collaboration between SIPB and IS&T, the central IT department. Debathena powers SIPB’s public dialup server Linerva, and the new Athena software in the public clusters.