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>4.2. Before getting openMosix</H1
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> First of all, you must understand that openMosix is made up of
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a kernel patch and some user-space tools. The kernel patch is needed
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to make the kernel capable of talking to other openMosix-enabled
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machines on the network. If you download openMosix as a binary package
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(such as an rpm file), you don't even need to take care about the
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kernel patch because the kernel has been patched and compiled with the
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most common default options and modules for you. </P
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> The user-space tools are needed in order to make an effective
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use of an openMosix-enabled kernel. They are needed to start/stop the
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migration daemon, the openMosix File System, to migrate jobs to
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certain nodes and other tasks which are usually
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accomplished with the help our good old friend: the command line
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interface. About binary packages: the same as in the kernel patch goes
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for the user-space tools: if you install an rpm you don't need to
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care about compiling them or configuring anything; just let them install
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and run. That's all. Really :) </P
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> Once you get to the download page (which we'll talk about in a
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second), you'll need to get two distinct parts: the kernel and the
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user-space tools. You can either download two binary packages or get
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the kernel patch plus the user-space tools' sources. The kernel patch
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is usually named after this scheme: openMosix-x.y.z-w where x.y.z is
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the version of the vanilla Linux Kernel against which the patch should
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be applied and w is the patch revision for that particular kernel
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release. For the precompiled kernel binaries, please refer to the
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README-openMosix-kernel.txt file you'll find in the download
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page. This file also contains updated info about manually compiling a
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kernel. </P
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> About the user-space tools: you'll find those in a package
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named openmosix-tools. We use the terms user-space tools,
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userspace-tools and openmosix-tools interchangeably.
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Updated info about precompiled binaries and
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manually compiling the tools are also provided in the
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README-openmosix-tools.txt file. Please note that since version 0.3 of
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the openmosix-tools, the openmosix.map file is deprecated and the use
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of the autodiscovery daemon is highly encouraged since it tends to
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make your life easier. </P
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