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- Linux Athena workstations increasingly deliver superior performance at a much lower cost
- Vendors increasingly target Linux as their primary Unix-based desktop platform for both commercial and open source third-party software and support
- The high cost of developing a custom Solaris distribution with diminishing resources was rapidly becoming prohibitive
- Declining popularity and lack of industry/higher education adoption of Sun Solaris as a desktop operating environment
- Standardizing on a single, Linux-based Athena desktop platform allows MIT to leverage community efforts in software packaging, user interface development, and hardware integration
- The ability to deploy, maintain, and support more machines in our student computing environment with reduced resources
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With year four since this change coming to a close, we want to remind you that this summer marks the end-of-life for the few remaining Sun Solaris Athena systems in our public student cluster environment as well as those Sun Solaris Athena systems deployed to departments, labs, and centers. |
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