[WinPartners] IS&T Software Snapshot Release Announcement

[William Cattey]

Good day,

IS&T is pleased to announce the latest software snapshot for incoming
students.

For the three IS&T supported platforms, Macintosh, Windows, and Linux, a
Student Bundle has been created which consists of a snapshot of current
versions of recommended IS&T distributed software.  The bundles are
available for download from the IS&T Software Download page:
http://web.mit.edu/software/

For those with slow connections or who are not yet on the network, a CD
containing all three bundles together with with "Getting Connected"
documentation is available at the Computing Helpdesk Walk-in center.

The creation of downloadable Student Bundles this year allows students 
to
get updates of the latest recommended software and the latest versions
continually. Previously the CDs were produced once a year.  This time 
around
we  expect to update the CDs periodically through the year.

The current bundles contain:

Macintosh:
	Virex 7.2.1	
	Kerberos Extras (10.3 and 10.4)	
	Adobe Reader 7.0
	Adium X 0.89.1
	Fetch 5.0.2
	VPN Client 4.9 (10.4 or later)
	VPN Client 4.8 (10.3 or earlier)

Windows:
	VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i
	Kerberos for Windows 2.6.5 (R2)
	Adobe Reader 7.0
	Gaim 1.5.0
	KLP 1.0.1
	SecureFX 3.1
	SecureCRT 5.1
	VPN Client 4.6

Linux:
	VirusScan 4.2.4
	up2date Configuration Files
	LPRng 3.8
	MIT Zephyr 2.1
	Adobe Reader 7.0.8
	MIT Kerberos Configuration Files
	MIT Pine 4.62L
	OpenAFS 1.4.1 for RHEL3/RHEL4
	VPN Client for RHEL3,  RHEL4 and RHEL4 (64-bit)

When we announced the Snapshot Release effort, we planned to add a 
separate
tab off the Software Download page for the documentation and bundles.  
Over
the summer, we produced that version and tested it with users.  We found
that adding a single software bundle entry to the per-platform tabs was 
a
simpler, more obvious, and more usable design.

If you have any questions or suggestions,  please contact the team
via email at snapshot-release at mit.edu.

Thanks,
IS&T Snapshot Release Team

William Cattey
Atticus Gifford
Alex Kozlov
Jonathan Reed
Lee Ridgway
Thomas Smith
Christine Verick
Al Willis