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General</H1 ><DIV CLASS="QANDASET" ><DL ><DT >19.1.1. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1512" >What is openMosix?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.2. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1517" >What does the term single-image clustering mean?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.3. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1522" >Does openMosix have a homepage?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.4. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1529" > Are there any mailing lists for openMosix?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.5. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1545" > Can I contribute to the openMosix project?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.6. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1552" > Who is the copyright holder of openMosix?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.7. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1557" > Is openMosix a fork of MOSIX?:</A ></DT ><DT >19.1.8. <A HREF="x1508.html#AEN1571" > Why did openMosix split from the MOSIX group?:</A ></DT ></DL ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1512" ></A ><B >19.1.1. </B >What is openMosix?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > The openMosix system is a Linux kernel extension for single-image clustering. It extends the outstanding MOSIX project, but is instead licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1517" ></A ><B >19.1.2. </B >What does the term single-image clustering mean?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B >There are many varieties of clusters, and a single-image cluster has multiple copies of a single operating system kernel.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1522" ></A ><B >19.1.3. </B >Does openMosix have a homepage?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B >Yes. It is at www.openMosix.org. The SourceForge project page is at <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmosix" TARGET="_top" ><I CLASS="CITETITLE" >http://openmosix.sf.net/</I ></A ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1529" ></A ><B >19.1.4. </B > Are there any mailing lists for openMosix?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > Yes. There are three: <P ></P ><OL TYPE="1" ><LI ><P >For general discussion, use mailto:openmosix-general@lists.sourceforge.net, whose general information page is at <A HREF="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-general" TARGET="_top" ><I CLASS="CITETITLE" >http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-general</I ></A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >For developers, use mailto:openmosix-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, whose general information page is at <A HREF="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel" TARGET="_top" ><I CLASS="CITETITLE" >http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel</I ></A ></P ></LI ><LI ><P > Italian Language openMosix Mailing List hosted by Democritos (the INFM National Simulation Center in Trieste)</P ></LI ></OL ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1545" ></A ><B >19.1.5. </B > Can I contribute to the openMosix project?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > Yes. The openMosix effort already has more than 10 contributors. Unlike the Linux kernel maintenance system, Moshe Bar appoints official maintainers and then gives these maintainers the commit bit to the openMosix CVS source tree, similarly to FreeBSD.</P ><P > Right now we are looking for more experienced kernel hackers to work on new features like checkpoint/restart.</P ><P > Write to mailtomoshe@moelabs.com if you would like to become an openMosix developer.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1552" ></A ><B >19.1.6. </B > Who is the copyright holder of openMosix?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > All MOSIX code is copyright by Professor Amnon Barak of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. All openMosix code is copyright by Moshe Bar, Tel Aviv. The openMosix system does not contain any non-GPL (i.e. MOSIX) code.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1557" ></A ><B >19.1.7. </B > Is openMosix a fork of MOSIX?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > Originally, openMosix was a fork of MOSIX, but it has evolved into an advanced clustering platform. The openMosix system no longer contains any non-GPL (i.e. MOSIX) code.</P ><P > Compared to MOSIX, a number of features were added: <P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD >A port to the UML (User-mode Linux) architecture</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >New and cleaner migration code</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >A better load balancer</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >Much reduced kernel latencies</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >Support for Dolphin and IA64</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >A greatly simplified installation processes that uses RPM packaging</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >A wealth of documentation</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN1571" ></A ><B >19.1.8. </B > Why did openMosix split from the MOSIX group?:</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B > The principal issue was that MOSIX was not licensed with an Open Source license.</P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="openmosixfaq.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1575.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >the openMosix FAQ</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="openmosixfaq.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Getting, building, installing and running openMosix</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >