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Frogboy writes: I don't mean to offend Linux users, but I think some of them are so interested in winning an advocacy debate than actually providing a solution. The last thing I wanted to do here was turn this into an "advocacy debate" of any sort. A number of OS Features were proposed as being things that "operating system developers should look at having part of the OS." I merely pointed out that many of the features do exis

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Listen - I didn't (and don't) want this to become another Holy War but: And I agree that Linux doesn't quite cut it. I mean, there is a lot of stuff out there for it, and a lot as in A LOT. But come on, after you spend a good day or two getting just the operating system core and perhaps the GUI front end adjusted to what you want, you're then faced with the daunting task of installing software. Have you actually used a d

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Thisis the UI of OpenMosix and no, this isn't the type of "Seamless" end user stuff I'm getting at. I think you're missing a point though. The UI you want to see is this: Yep. Nothing. Not a thing. It's just there and it Just Works. You don't have to see what the loading is over your cluster. You can if you want. Ideally you just run a program and let the cluster work out where it's going to run. And that

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Oye, there's always a Linux advocate ready to jump in and say "Here's a cryptic, hard to set up, non-seamless solution that will, with enough sweat and pain kind of almost do part of what you want..." I'm less of a Linux advocate than you might think. I am a pragmatic soul who will use the best tools for the job. I am somewhat technically inclined so GNU/Linux happens to be the tool I generally use. It used to be OS/2. It has occasi

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#1 Seamless Distributed Computing ...I can't simply tell my operating system that I have "access" to Machine A, B, and C on my network and to use their memory, their CPU, and other resources... I suggest looking at the OpenMOSIX project: http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ From their website: "Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking to one another and the cluster adapts itself t