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- Summer 2005: Initial communications about "Solaris sunset"; IS&T stops renewing Sun Solaris Athena workstations except by special request
- Summer 2006, 2007, 2008: Renewals of DLC and public student cluster workstations replace Sun Solaris Athena machines with Athena Linux systems
- Summer 2008: Analysis of Solaris-only third-party software packages and possible alternatives
- Spring 2009: Remaining Sun Solaris workstations come up for renewal
- Summer 2009: Remaining Sun Solaris workstations in public student clusters and most DLC Sun Solaris Athena systems are replaced with Athena Linux systems
- Fall 2009: Remaining DLC Sun Solaris Athena systems are replaced with Linux Athena systems where desired
- IAP 2010: Sun Solaris Athena systems in 37-318 4-167 ("holdout cluster") are replaced with Linux Athena systems
- Beyond IAP 2010: Athena Sun Solaris dialup systems (athena.dialup.mit.edu, x.dialup.mit.edu) are replacedIAP 2010: Sun Solaris Athena systems in 37-318 4-167 ("holdout cluster") are replaced with Linux Athena systemswill be around at least through IAP 2010
Alternatives
Solaris software packages
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