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MOSIX license not GPL
by Vladimir Ivanovic - Jun 1st 2002 22:37:06
The Freshmeat MOSIX project
page claims that MOSIX is licensed under the GPL. The license on the MOSIX site is
not the GPL.
One or the other is incorrect. Which is it? And when will both of them
agree?
Thanks.
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Re: MOSIX license not GPL
by Fergus Incoronato - Dec 13th 2002 03:03:18
> The Freshmeat MOSIX project page claims
> that MOSIX is licensed under the GPL.
> The license on the MOSIX site is not the
> GPL.
>
> One or the other is incorrect. Which is
> it? And when will both of them agree?
From http://www.mosix.org/txt_distribution.html page:
"The MOSIX distribution
The MOSIX distribution consists of two parts, a kernel patch (that is
subject to the GNU GPL) and a set of user level tools. You may download the
two parts in any order."
I guess that only the MOSIX kernel patch is under the GNU GPL and not the
MOSIX tools.
The name of the Freshmeat project is "MOSIX Kernel Patch" and the license
refers to the "MOSIX Kernel Patch" and neither to the "MOSIX Project" or
the "MOSIX Distribution".
Hope this will help.
Bye.
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Re: MOSIX license not GPL
by The Pro From Dover - Dec 31st 2006 19:33:11
Please look at the OpenMosix project.
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/
This explains the differences:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=10431&group_id=46729
Why OpenMosix instead of the original MOSIX?
1. As I stated previously, Richard Camp posted an excellent How-To on
installing the original MOSIX system with the K12LTSP 2.0.x distribution.
It pointed me in the right direction and I'm truly grateful for his
efforts. Without which, who knows if I'd have ever gotten anywhere with the
concept of combining LTSP & MOSIX. Unfortunately in my case, the MOSIX
install script that came from the MOSIX download always failed when the
2.4.17 kernel compile would throw errors during the modules_install phase.
MOSIX simply would not patch & install automatically with the installation
script. I began investigating a manual MOSIX kernel patch & userland tools
installation and came across the OpenMosix project in the process. I found
OpenMosix very simple to implement.
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2. MOSIX is either no longer Open Source or it's status as Open Source
software is uncertain at this time. Without clarity on this issue, I would
think that anyone implementing MOSIX should first obtain permission to do
so from the copyright holder, Amnon Barak.
As of this writing, I don't have all of the details of MOSIX's
current licensing status and I did not find any statement regarding the
issue on the MOSIX site but you may wish to review the following for more
information on the matter--
About OpenMosix Page:
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/about.html
Interview with Moshe Bar (founder of OpenMosix & a former project
manager for MOSIX):
http://foundries.sourceforge.net/clusters/index.pl?node_id=41457&lastnode_id=131
The OpenMosix FAQ:
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/faq.html
The uncertainty surrounding MOSIX licensing and the ease of installation
makes OpenMosix an ideal alternative for our purposes.
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See also: OpenSSI
http://openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=openssi.html
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Mosix install party
by Knud - Aug 5th 2000 10:31:22
AaLug (Aarhus Linux User Group, Denmark) make a Mosix install party
19-20/8 2000.
As far as we know it the worlds first Mosix insall party !
Is this correct ??
Read more at http://www.aalug.dk/alcw/
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mosix hmm.. beowulf as a plugin *lol*
by Arkane - Aug 13th 1999 01:08:07
I just installed this onto my debian 2.1 system and it rocks, plain and
simple. I have a Pentium 450 and run mosix between that and a Pentium 166,
both with 128mb ram. Once you optimize your environment to work right with
parallel processing, this thing really makes it cook. It makes my
StarOffice 5.1 under KDE come up like greased lightning.
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MOSIX and ext3
by GreatSUN@ircnet - Nov 20th 2001 03:05:34
I tried to get it work with a 2.4.13 and 2.4.14 kernel with an ext3 patch.
it doesn't patch the kernel... If I apply the ext3 patch after the mosix
patch the ext3 patch fails at sched.h and the kernel cant'e be compiled
with ext3 options on.
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MOSIX and ext3
by GreatSUN@ircnet - Nov 21st 2001 06:19:30
Moshe Bar from the MOSIX-Team told me what to do, to get MOSIX to work with
ext3:
1. patch kernel-source with the according MOSIX-patch.
2. patch kernel-source with the according ext3-patch
3. edit include/linux/sched.h and insert the following two lines (from
sched.h.rej):
void *journal_info;
journal_info: NULL, \
insert those files in the matching fields you can get from
sched.h.rej !!!
After that you can compile your kernel and everything should work.
Have FUN !
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Re: mosix hmm.. beowulf as a plugin *lol*
by Quixy - Feb 3rd 2002 06:29:46
Well, I have a private cluster here:
1x Athlon 1 GHz (master node; 512 MB RAM)
1x K6-3 450 MHz (slave 1; 256 MB RAM)
1x K6-2 400 MHz (slave 2; 96 MB RAM)
A forth node (Duron 600 MHz; with one 128 MB module from slave 1) will
be added in some weeks or a moth.
And MOSIX works great on them! I run the dnet client 24h/7 days on the
cluster.
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Keep allways smooth
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