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>Chapter 19. the openMosix FAQ</TD
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>19.1. General</H1
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>19.1.1. <A
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>What is openMosix?:</A
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>19.1.2. <A
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>What does the term single-image clustering mean?:</A
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>19.1.3. <A
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>Does openMosix have a homepage?:</A
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>19.1.4. <A
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> Are there any mailing lists for openMosix?:</A
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>19.1.5. <A
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> Can I contribute to the openMosix project?:</A
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>19.1.6. <A
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> Who is the copyright holder of openMosix?:</A
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>19.1.7. <A
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> Is openMosix a fork of MOSIX?:</A
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>19.1.8. <A
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> Why did openMosix split from the MOSIX group?:</A
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>19.1.1. </B
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>What is openMosix?:</P
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The openMosix system is a Linux kernel extension for single-image clustering. It extends the outstanding MOSIX project, but
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is instead licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).</P
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>19.1.2. </B
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>What does the term single-image clustering mean?:</P
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>There are many varieties of clusters, and a single-image cluster has multiple copies of a single operating system kernel.</P
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>19.1.3. </B
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>Does openMosix have a homepage?:</P
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>Yes. It is at www.openMosix.org. The SourceForge project page is at
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>http://openmosix.sf.net/</I
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>19.1.4. </B
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Are there any mailing lists for openMosix?:</P
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Yes. There are three:
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>For general discussion, use mailto:openmosix-general@lists.sourceforge.net, whose general information page is at
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>http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-general</I
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>For developers, use mailto:openmosix-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, whose general information page is at
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> Italian Language openMosix Mailing List hosted by Democritos (the INFM National Simulation Center in Trieste)</P
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>19.1.5. </B
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Can I contribute to the openMosix project?:</P
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Yes. The openMosix effort already has more than 10 contributors. Unlike the Linux kernel maintenance system, Moshe Bar
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appoints official maintainers and then gives these maintainers the commit bit to the openMosix CVS source tree, similarly to
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FreeBSD.</P
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> Right now we are looking for more experienced kernel hackers to work on new features like checkpoint/restart.</P
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> Write to mailtomoshe@moelabs.com if you would like to become an openMosix developer.</P
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Who is the copyright holder of openMosix?:</P
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All MOSIX code is copyright by Professor Amnon Barak of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. All openMosix code is copyright by
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Moshe Bar, Tel Aviv. The openMosix system does not contain any non-GPL (i.e. MOSIX) code.</P
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Is openMosix a fork of MOSIX?:</P
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Originally, openMosix was a fork of MOSIX, but it has evolved into an advanced clustering platform. The openMosix system no
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> Compared to MOSIX, a number of features were added:
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>A port to the UML (User-mode Linux) architecture</TD
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>A better load balancer</TD
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