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OpenMosix

Posted by Hemos on from the mosixing-the-night-away dept.

Francesco Taurino writes "Moshe Bar has released a new Mosix system: openMosix. From the site: "For thousands of users Mosix has been a reliable, fast and cost efficient clustering platform. There are hundreds of Mosix installations in life sciences, finance, industry, high tech, research and government environments. The goal of openMosix is to give to these users a continued support and an up-to-date platform. openMosix is initially fully compatible with the last Mosix (1.5.2 for 2.4.13) kernel, but is now growing in its own direction. If you would like to contribute to the openMosix project, drop a line to moshe@openmosix.org.""

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  1. This is great... I think by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just finished implementing my 6 node MOSIX cluster, and I ran across several bugs, and I couldn't find any place to report them. The MOSIX development list is closed subscription, and apparently the good Professor ignores his email.

    I'm not clear about some things though... How is MOSIX currently licensed? Why are they being so closed about development?

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  2. Re:Why the fork... by crome · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, Prof. Barak did not release any new versions until this morning (after my announcement). He closed off the mailing list and bulletin board. He complained to me repeatedly about the GPL and that he was going to close off Mosix and that Linus is a fool.

    In the mosix website they speak about going to user-space, which is probably being done to avoid the GPL.

    Just ask yourself, if they had Mosix for 2.4.17 (they released it soon after my openMosix, so it must have been there all along) ready, why didn't Prof. Barak give it to the user-community?

    That's what I mean they are going proprietary.

    Moshe Bar