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ClusterKnoppix

Posted by michael on from the making-the-hard-things-easy dept.

chronicon writes "Knoppix is the ultimate live CD. No geek-kit should be without it. Now Wim Vandersmissen has taken it a step futher by adding openMosix functionality. Drop the clusterKnoppix CD in your "server", boot up... boot up some networked clients... Knoppix built in LTSP magic kicks in and ta-da--instant cluster!"

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  1. I should give this a shot by zakezuke · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have here a compaq contura Aero 486 sx/33 with 4megs of ram and a 170 meg HD. I find that Caldara, while being one of the only things that will run on it, is a might bit slugish.

    The contura Aero is particulary annoying because of it's use of a Pcmcia floppy drive, and only 1 type II slot. For those unfamilar, it's not like you can hot swap the floppy and have it still work or anything useful like that.

    For me it's either the laptop or a old net terminal for telnet fuctionality, and the laptop takes up less space.

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  2. Re:Come on, I know you're out there by Schezar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gentoo IS THE BEST DISTRO EVAR

    The best distro ever is functional AND simple to install.

    SIMPLE to INSTALL.

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  3. Re:SCO is tanking hard again! by twocents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gosh, I can't imagine people that had invested millions in Linux becoming angry that SCO is threatening to sue Linus and thinking twice about buying their stock and their services.

    Most people dumped their software years ago, so hopefully everyone will now finish them off and dump their stock.

  4. Re:Knoppix is impressive by packeteer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You want really easy automatic hardware detection? Try out mandrake... It will run on most any consumer hardware.

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  5. Re:Knoppix is impressive by Dylan+Zimmerman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have. It killed my hard drive.

    Technically, I suppose that it was Windows (95 OSR2 upgraded to 98 SE) that killed my hard drive, but the result was the same. I installed Linux and the drive died. That single-handedly killed any thoughts I had of dual-booting. It also caused my parents to chew me out for well over 7 hours. Have you ever stood for 7 hours straight? Apparently, upgraded versions of Windows don't like living on dual-boot drives, so they somehow crash the drive. I'm talking hardcore crashing, here. The drive was physically destroyed. Fortunately, it was still under warranty.

    That machine was simply the worst conglomeration of hardware and software possible. I used an Asus motherboard, a 400 MHz AMD K6-2 processor, and Windows 95 OSR2. The three didn't get along at all. I got IOS protection faults every time I booted until I found the patch and installed it. I never did get it working well.

    Later, I installed it on a clean drive on another machine, but the machine that I was using was WAY too slow, so I just had a bad user experience.