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The new 9.4 RELEASE

This document will provide a brief summary of the changes and new
features in Athena 9.4, released August 2005.  For more detailed
information, please see:

http://web.mit.edu/olh/Release/9.4/index.html

Major Changes:

-Red Hat Enterprise Linux was upgraded from version 3 to version 4

-Solaris 9 upgraded to Solaris 10

-The default windowmanager changed from Sawfish to Metacity.

-Firefox replaced Mozilla as the default web browser

-Evolution was upgraded to 2.0.4

-Root logins are disallowed on Cluster and Quickstation workstations:
 you must use 'su' instead to gain root access


$Id: 9.4_intro,v 1.1 2007/08/22 12:40:10 jdreed Exp $

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