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Athena Clusters. Computing spaces located throughout campus. Each space contains anywhere from 4-112 workstations, running either Debathena or WinAthena.

Why Debathena?

Prior to Debathena, all versions of Athena were extensively customized. While they were based on existing operating systems, a significant amount of the Athena system was still built by hand, and Athena existed as a monolithic installation. Customization was possible, but not to the same extent as was possible on the underlying OS.

Athena customers had long expressed a desire for better peripheral support, more frequent upgrades, better graphical environments, and many other features that had become standard in other desktop distributions of Linux. By standardizing on Ubuntu and using upstream standards whenever possible, the Debathena Team has been able to deliver what has long been desired: a Desktop Linux environment that supports the latest hardware and software but retains all the important Athena functionality.

Who uses Athena?

Athena services are used every day by all members of the MIT community. Kerberos clients are used on Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms. Print servers host not only Athena printers, but hundreds of departmental printers and SAP printers.

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