Well your question is a little bit unfair. You can paraphrase it that way: "Do you prefer a product written by a team of dedicated MSc and PhD students, under tight guidance and supervision by a world recognized professor over a product written by a
I did not mean to say that dedicated MSc and PhD student, nor Prof. Amnon Barak are something to neglect, all I meant to say is that sometime, when one writes code for an academic research project and when as opposed to code written for use in a day in day out production system, the two will not look the same because of the different objective of the two developers.
To put it in other ways - I think MOSIX is written by very very talented people doing great cutting edge research work. They also write unmaintainble code that looks like Perl poetry.
couple of enthusiasts in their __spare__ time?"
If you somehow gather from my response that OpenMOSIX is any better, you got me very very wrong :-)
The whole point of my rethorical question was to say that the entire MOSIX/OpenMOSIX technical difference issue is moot, not because there is no difference (there is), it is because MOSIX/OpenMOSIX is a great academic excersize - a working academic excersize, but not something I would use except for very specific and narrow taks in controled conditions.
(I'm not taking sides here). These are ideological/phylosophical questions. What I am intrested in is objective benchmarks or personal experience. The only benchmark that I saw (see the
I don't have any to offer. My experience as an OpenMOSIX developer for a couple of months leads me to believe the MOSIX will be faster. This a notion based on the target of the two maintainers, not on actual benchmark.
Stability is a different issue that should be taken into account too.
link in my original posting) is in favor of (closed) Mosix. Although I do admit that that was a very primitive benchmark.
Mosix is not really closed source. AFAIK the kernel part are bone fida GPL free software and the user space part, while not FOSS according to the definition, are far from being propritery in the sense that most propritery software is - sort of like Qmail, you don't get FOSS grade freedom, but you're far from being a prisoner.
Cheers,
Gilad
PS. In the intrest of full disclosure, you should know that I worked for Qlusters for several months.
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