can someone please tell me if / when mosix is going to be properly upported
in mandrake? I got it working by brute force with kernel 2.2.18 (which
incidently seemingly got lost in all the hurah over 2.4) bit this kernel
never compiled properly, the make menuconfig was broke & some weird disk
errors started apearing afterwards.
What we need is some serious clustering capabilities built right into the
system from word go. I have 50+ 500+mz machines on a fast lan - only a few
of those are heavyly tasked at any one time, however if those resouces could
be shared properly & easily it would be a real breeze to handle the peaks on
ALL the machines.
AS for Q.C. in Mandrake - it seems to be deteriorating fast
In general our experience of 7.0 was good, 7.1 was better but we have had
very mixed results with 7.2 ( the upgrade does not work at all, ( often
results in an unusable & trashed system! requiring re-format!) neither does
the network install ( also a samba install is missing ) the real install
leaves out many of the packages at random even when 100% is chosen it just
goes its own way & generaly needs several attempts just to get a working
system - also th mandrake update progam is K**p it always fails & cannot
handle the dependencies set out in the upgrade dir - just crashes or offers
to either force all packages or just quit!
Mandrake is a good system, just hope more attention can be paid to detail &
quality otherwise we are just re-inventing MS's mistakes - too fast to
market with too buggy & unfinished software, then onto the next pice of
junk!
My other big bitch is that with so many Linux packages being realy hot of
the press & required as fixes, it is disconcerting & potentially dangerous
to be forced to patch a production system with files from cooker or the next
version simply because no-one had bothered to add the tested updates to the
update dir. ( take the upgrades released for MySQL / netscape / PHP3 to PHP4
etc for example & there are LOTS more
Come on guys how hard can it be to have a HOT ( i.e. run a script from the
command line NOT X-win that downloads & installs all the latest & greatest
(or as required) then (perhaps at most one ) simple reboot to init the new
kernel etc) upgrade to a working system to keep it bang up to date? for
server systems taht would be MUCH easier to handle than a day of downtime &
the risk that it will trash everything. To follow from that theme if the
same script can then update all the other machines on the lan then life
would be better, the mirrors would have better use of the bandwith & you
would have more much happier customers.
Hope someone will take note of the above. I realise there are other agendas
etc. but if we cannot easyly keep current, have polished software ( that
thought no doubt will earn me a flame! ) & utilise the benefits of the
latest technology then are we not missing the (linux) plot in a big way?????
Thanks & Regards,
Mark Berger
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