Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution

joestar writes "According to their website, Mandrake and partners (Bull, INPG/INRIA...) have launched an 'easy-to-deploy easy-to-use Linux Clustering solution,' that has already been tested on a 40-node cluster. Of course, it's published under the GPL, comes with parallel applications, and is available for download as an ISO. It seems the project is financed by French government. It's great because I've always dreamed of having my own supercomputer at home."

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Financed by the French

[L. VeGas]

That means the first hacker to run a port scan will make all processes immediately stop and wait for Microsoft to rescue them.

Sounds cool as long as.......

[h8macs]

This sounds like a very cool and nifty idea. The one thing that would hold me back is the fact that I would have to update from their network and would have a hard time installing packages of my choice.

I may be ignorant but, whenever I tried to update anything or install anything, I was told that a dependency was not found. With a cursory exploration, I found that the dependency was there but low and behold everything has been renamed!

MDK is a pain in the a$$!

If they have stopped this practice of renaming files I am unaware as I have moved on to a more standard linux distro.