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openMosix Is Shutting Down
jd writes "Despite having one of the largest user-bases of any clustering system for Linux, openMosix is to be shut down. Top developers have left and they lack the means or motivation to continue. Their official claim of multicore CPUs making clustering redundant is somewhere between highly improbable and totally absurd, as has been pointed out elsewhere. Why is this shutdown so important? Well, from a technical standpoint, the open-source bproc (the Beowulf process migration module) is ancient, MOSIX is very hard to obtain unless you're a student, and kerrighd is (as yet) immature. From a user standpoint, openMosix is the mainstay of the Open Source clustering world and has by far the best management tools of any. The ability of this project to continue will likely have a major impact on the future of Open Source in the high-end markets — if the best of the best couldn't survive, people will be more careful about anything less."
So... Open Source really isn't the opium that RMS would like us to believe?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I am with Linus on this one.
GPL v3 does not make sense. RMS should be stopped before it is too late.
This is a textbook example of why business users are wary about open source. If a project can just dry up and blow away so easily, why would a company want to rely on it for their critical business needs? Sure projects like Linux and OpenOffice have reached a certain maturity and critical mass of developers and users that they are not likely to disappear overnight if at all. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft,Oracle,Sun etc. will not go away and leave you with a legacy piece of software that is no longer being actively being developed without providing for an alternate product that is viable over the long haul.
I had a beowulf cluster of prom queens once. Unfortunately, the great state of California considered that a crime (16 will get you 20) and now my sex life consists of being shower raped by niggers and mexicans. My lawyer has filed a constitutional lawsuit (on the grounds that being infected with HIV via prison rape is violates the fourth amendment) but even if it succeeds, my life is over.
And this, dear FOSSies, is why the enterprise will never choose Lunix.
If you cannot provide an enterprise quality product, enterprise quality support, and enterprise quality reliability... nobody is going to view Lunix as anything more than a kid's tinkerer tech toy. Which is essentially what Lunix is.
Anyone who talked their corporation into choosing a Lunix cluster better start polishing up their resume. Maybe "the community" can help you after you get shit-canned. BWAHAHAHAA!! Losers.
But hey, take heart: it could be worse. You could be the IT staff working for Munich, Germany, which has been beating their head against the wall for five years trying to get everything moved onto teh Lunix. Imagine being responsible for bringing an entire municipal government to a virtual standstill because of a horrible decision like that! And all because of some slavish devotion to creating a Lunix monoculture.
Seems hardly a few days go past without hearing about a nonprofit distro shutting down, or a commercial one signing up with Microsoft. Then you've got the looming spectre of the GPL 3 scaring other people away. The future at this point ain't looking so bright.
boo! this comment is FUD.