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• DONE Users can connect to the mainframe with the x3270 terminal emulator.
• DONE Users can send and receive Zephyr messages.
• DONE Users can browse the web with Firefox, which is preconfigured with the MIT CA, a local filesystem path for its disk cache, and the Java and Flash plugins.
• DONE Users can easily connect to the MIT Chat service with Gaim, and in addition can use the gaim-encryption plugin for end-to-end message encryption.
• DONE Users can easily read MIT mail using Evolution or Pine.
• DONE Users can read archives in Discuss.
• DONE Users have access to a rich C development environment as well as basic installations of Perl, Python, and Java.
• Users have access to a variety of non-standard utilities (jot, lam, saferm, etc.).
• DONE Users can print to Athena network printers with the lpr command and from applications which support printing.
• Users have access to the enscript command to format text documents into postscript for printing.
• Users can run emacs with Athena site customizations.
• DONE Users can conduct single sign-on logins to other Athena machines (provided they have a keytab and are configured for remote access) or compatible non-Athena machines via kerberized ssh, telnet, rlogin, or ftp.
• DONE Users can query and manipulate IMAP mail stores with the mailquota, mailusage, from, and mitmail* commands.
• DONE Users can access and run software from AFS lockers through /mit paths via "attach", "add", "setup", and related commands. Home directories are also treated as lockers.
• DESUPPORT Users can use a network-enabled replacement for "write" between machines.
• DONE Users can query Athena hesiod information with the hesinfo command.
• DONE Users can spell-check documents using the ispell command.
• Users can pull down MIT mail with the emacs movemail command (currently uses kpop).
• DONE Athena machines have a selection of international fonts installed.
• DONE Users can talk to serial devices using kermit.
• DONE Users can process TeX and LaTeX documents.
• Athena machines can access Windows file shares using a Kerberos-enabled smbclient which is pre-configured for the win.mit.edu realm.
• Athena machines have attach-and-run scripts in the default path for various bits of locker software such as the Moira tools.

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Current solution: The athena-evolution and athena-evolution-data-server packages provide Evolution, and the athena-pine package provides Pine.   The athena-evolution package has been modified to make the Evolution data directory private when created, to auto-configure MIT mail settings on first invocation, to add Hesiod support, to cache messages in /var/tmp in preference to AFS homedirs, to display MIT folders first in the folder list, to avoid using ibex folders since they are byte-order dependent, and to enable krb4 authentication support.   (Unfinished; Pine changes not yet inventoried.)The athena-pine package has been modified to add Hesiod and krb4 support, to make the mail directory private when created, and to auto-configure MIT mail via the site config file.

Planned solution: The debathena-evolution-wrapper package will handle initial configuration, privacy of the data directory, and Hesiod lookup of the PO server.   The debathenificator framework will be used to modify the Ubuntu Evolution package to enable krb4 support, and possibly to cache messages in /var/tmp and disable ibex folders should those changes prove still necessary.   (Unfinished: Pine plan not made.)

Status: Evolution tasks done.  Pine tasks not done.

For Pine, the debathenificator framework will be used to modify the Ubuntu alpine package to integrate krb4 and Hesiod support and to ensure the privacy of the data directory, and a new package debathena-alpine-config will install our site config file and create a pine -> alpine symlink.

Status: DoneMilestone: Basic (one week for remaining work).

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