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MIT athena

MIT athena

Posted Jun 5, 2003 3:09 UTC (Thu) by djao (subscriber, #4263)
Parent article: Roundup of Educational Linux Distributions

We probably missed a few projects, so if you happen to know about some that belong in this category, please tell us by posting a comment below.

Who could forget MIT's Athena linux, the granddaddy of them all. Not in the Linux sense, but in the Unix sense: things like the X Windowing System, athena widgets, AFS, Motif, etc. were originally written at MIT. To see them being ported back to linux at MIT truly completes the circle.

Incidentally, the MIT Athena workstations now run GNOME. Even there, there is an MIT connection, as Nat Friedman of Ximian is a graduate of MIT.


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MIT athena

Posted Sep 2, 2003 12:17 UTC (Tue) by otto (guest, #14721) [Link]

Tried to follow a project from a Colorado school district
called something like "Epik" or "Project Theosus" supposed
to have been a small linux project. Wonder what became of it?

Otto

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