Debathena brings the full functionality of an Athena workstation to your Debian or Ubuntu system through a set of Debian packages. You can easily install, and cleanly uninstall, whatever packages you want—from a few of the client utilities, to a full-fledged Kerberos login system supporting AFS home directories and locker software.
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.
As of Friday, June 19, 2009, the W20-575 cluster has been upgraded to Debathena running on Ubuntu 9.04. There is signage as you enter the cluster with more information about the changes. If you have questions about Debathena, please see the Help with Debathena section on this page for information about Debathena in the clusters and links to FAQs.