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Re: NT vs Linux



Isaac Aaron writes:

 >     "Lack of an enterprise clustering
 >     system for service and application
 >     availability "
 > - MOSIX? Linux extreme?

No, no. Linux extreme, or Beowulf, is something else altogether. It's
a system for parallel applications, not the clustering they refer to.
They want load balancing and failover capabilities. Mosix is process
migration so it's closer. There are other applications; for the most
extensive of what I've seen look at
http://proxy.iinchina.net/~wensong/ippfvs/

But these are still hacks. What needs to be done is integration of one 
of these systems into the distributions, so given a server profile
they are installed and configured. In an easy way, no kernel patches
or anything. Then you can say that the OS has it. For the time being
it's just something you can hack on if you know how.

Does NT have these things, though? NT4 sure doesn't (unless there's
something major I'm not aware of). Sure they promise for it to be in
Windows 2000 but until 2004 we can add those things too, so...


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