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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. Imagine A Beowulf Cluster Of : +1, Incendiary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reichstags

    Cheers,
    W00t

  2. Funny images? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Coalition forces hard at work looking for WMD.

  3. Bush's 9-11 Reichstag Fire: +1, Hyperpatriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read about Bush and his Reichstag at:

    The United States of Amerika

  4. SCO is tanking hard again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO is tanking again today!
    After losing 25% of their stock value yesterday (after Novell called them on their bullshit and showed them as the LIARS they are), they are going for another 25% today. Already down 10%!!! http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX&d=v1

    Sell! Sell! SELL!

    Suck it, SCO bitches!

    1. 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.

  5. YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.macslash2.org

    Here's your justification, you lousy piece of troll shit. My DSL connection at home sucks, and that's where the beta server is running. I gave out the site to 125 people who emailed me asked me for the site, so that it didn't die.
    Now you've decided to be a fucking flaming asshole and post the site everywhere, causing signifacnt problems with my DSL at home because you're a piece of shit with nothing better to do.

    I've wasted 5 hours this morning deleting your trolls and in the meantime have gotten NO other work done because of you. I'm trying to do something nice for MacSlash community and upgrade our server so it's better. You insist on wasting my time with this shit, and keeping me from being able to work on the new server.

    I've worked on this site for over 3 years without every making a penny off of it because I like the interaction with other Mac users. You've just spoiled that. I now dread loading the site every morning because of trolls like you. I spend most of my time now dealing with your petty bullshit instead making this a better place. And I'm about ready to just shut the whole damn thing down instead of dealing with you anymore.

    So there's you're fucking justification. Now stop posting the address of the new site.
    -- Ben Stanfield
    Executive Editor @ MacSlash

    www.macslash2.org

    1. Re:YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, yes, very cute. Only Ben didn't write that. A troll did, posting it to MacSlash anonymously.

      Look, we all have plenty of reasons to hate MacSlash. (Did you see that fucking headline a couple of days ago about how the "greedy corporate execs?" WTF??) Making fun of Ben for no good reason when there are so many really good reasons to be had is just lame.

    2. Re:YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ben really did write the original. It has now, however, been adopted by trolls.

    3. Re:YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      see .... this is where you are wrong. Ben indeed posted it. I saved this little nugget of joy to use for just such an occassion.

      I believe the heavy trolling that takes place over there is due to the crazy way they delete posts that do not conform to their 'Mac Zealot' ways. I thought you used Slashcode to mod trolls down, and not to delete them!?

      Ben is a spoiled rich kid who lives with his parents and is used to getting his way....and needs knocked down a few places...just check his Bio on MacSlash!!! the Messiah??! Give me a break....

      Also....please visit www.macslash2.org

      Thank you!

    4. Re:YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Believe what you must .... I was there...I was there when JUSTIFY or DELETE!!! was posted....I was also there to save that little nugget of joy from our buddie acaben ..... I was also there when he threatened the troll with death, and by his hands it would be excusable in the courts on the front page of www.macslash2.org ....

      i was there ....

      yes,

      i was there ...

    5. Re:YOU KNOW WHAT ..... YOU WIN!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ummmm...no...Ben did post it after a long night of his sight being trolled. It wasn't posted by an AC, it was posted by Acaben. Also www.macslash2.org is being run from his home DSL.

  6. Re:This is the problem with Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, sir, are an asshole. However, you're a damned succinct and intelligent one.

  7. 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.

    --
    There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
  8. Re:Pilsbury Doughboy found dead at 71 by Cybo2002 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .....uhhhh.......right.

  9. 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.

    --
    GeekNights!
    Late Night Radio for Geeks!
  10. TROLL?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is that a Troll? He obviously is sad because his baby left him, and you call him a Troll????

    Fucking stupid asshat moderators on crack!

  11. That was perhaps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...the nicest *sniff* thing anyone has ever said about me...*sob* ;)

    -F.A.B.

  12. 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.

    --
    unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
  13. 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.