Working on Athena (AC-11)


Revision History

Version 16 (Octover 2005, Heather Anne Harrison): New screen shots. UPdates for Metacity, Forefox and other Athena 9.4 changes.

Version 15 (September 2004, Heather Anne Harrison): New screen shots to show Nautilus file manager and other release-related updates.

Version 14 (December 2003, Heather Anne Harrson): Adjusted examples and text to make document more applicable for standalone linux use as well as Athena specific uses of AFS.

Version 13 (August 2003, Heather Anne Harrison): Updated for Athena 9.2, software upgrades, hardware changes, and web services. Also formatting changes for clarity and printing.

Version 12 (October 2002, Heather Anne Harrison): Updated for changes in the panel configurations.

Version 11 (September 2002, Heather Anne Harrison): Updated for Athena 9.1 changes and Mozilla. Thanks to Greg Hudson and Oliver Thomas.

Version 10 (August 2001, Heather Anne Harrsion): Updated for new interface, web Moira interface, helpquota, quota increase and Athena 9.0 changes. Also shuffled sections for readability and added screen shots. Thanks to Greg Hudson and Kevin Cunningham.

Verion 9 (August 2000, Heather Anne Harrison):Updated for Athena 8.4. Thanks to Greg Hudson and Nick Bozard.

Version 8 (Jul 1999, Heather Anne Harrison): Updated to reflect Athena release 8.3.

Version 7 (Aug 98, Heather Anne Harrison): Merged with Managing Your Athena Account. Made more Web-friendly. Added sections on email, Netscape, zephyr and revised other sections to reflect the current state of Athena. Based upon a draft by Cathy Coury. Thanks to Cathy Coury, Dan Winship, Greg Hudson and David Maize.

Version 6 (Aug 96, Sharon Belville): Eliminated references to DECstations and IBM RS/6000s. Updated for Athena 8.0.

Version 5 (Feb 96, Sharon Belville): Revised to elminate references to VAXstations and to incorporate SGI information. (Online version of document.)

Version 4 (Aug 94, Sharon Belville): Updated for Athena release 7.7, removed references to VAXstations, and formatted in two columns.

Version 3 (20 Aug 93, Kevin Cunningham): Revised to eliminate references to outmoded platforms, and to incorporate information related to new Sun SPARCclassic machines.

Version 2 (24 Aug 92, Kevin Cunningham): Revised substantially to incorporate information about AFS, new workstation types, and Release 7.4. Some parts were adapted from AFS at Athena, particularly affecting the file/directory discussions. Thanks to Sharon Belville and Jeanne Cavanaugh for reviews.

Version 1 (25 Sept 91, Kevin Cunningham): Original draft. Much of the content was adapted from existing sections in Getting Started on Athena, as well as earlier documents such as Athena Workstation, Essential UNIX, Essential X, More Unix: Files, and More Unix: The C Shell. Thanks to Brandy Bechtel, Bill Bryant, Joe Pellegrini, Roger Zee, Linda Merims, Kathy Lieben, Sharon Belville, Mark Moormans, and others. Thanks to Dorothy Bowe, Jeanne Cavanaugh, Saskia Duyvesteyn, Carla Fermann, Edgar Hilton, Mukul Kumar, Thomas Palka, and Krishna Sethuraman for reviews.