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>6.1. What Plump/OS is</H1
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>PlumpOS is a CD-based GNU/Linux/openMosix mini-distribution designed
to allow users to quickly, or temporarily, add nodes to an openMosix
cluster; as I write this in march 2003 the version (release 6.9 RC1)
is a 16.7M ISO download.</P
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>This chapter is a quick hack up by Peter Willis of a very similar
chapter contributed by Jean-David Marrow (who is the author of
Clump/OS and inspirer of PlumpOS - props to Jean-David for his fine
work on the departed Clump/OS).</P
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