Obtaining an Evaluation Copy of MOSIX2 A free evaluation copy, limited to 6 nodes with no expiration date, is provided for non-profit use upon acceptance that the following license applies to most parts of the MOSIX2 package, except the parts that are marked otherwise: MOSIX SOFTWARE NON-PROFIT LICENSE AGREEMENT THE ACCOMPANYING FILES OF THE MOSIX SOFTWARE, HEREINAFTER CALLED ``THE PRODUCT'', INCLUDING ANY FILES CONTAINED IN THIS DIRECTORY AND ANY OF ITS SUB-DIRECTORIES TO ANY DEPTH (UNLESS PARTICULAR FILES OR SUB-DIRECTORIES ARE EXPLICITLY COVERED BY ANOTHER LICENSE AGREEMENT), IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. OBTAINING, REVIEWING OR USING THE PRODUCT CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO OBTAIN, REVIEW OR USE THE PRODUCT. NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS LICENSE, WHEN PROVIDED TO YOU DIRECTLY FROM THE LEGAL OWNER OF THE PRODUCT, GRANTS YOU PERMISSION TO OBTAIN, REVIEW OR USE THE PRODUCT. 1. DEFINITIONS: END-USER: Any person, entity, company or organization that uses THE PRODUCT for their own internal use, in their capacity as such, but specifically excluding those who pass THE PRODUCT on to third parties. NODE: Either a physical or a virtual computer whose IP address is configured to be part of a MOSIX cluster or multi-cluster. For example, computers with more than one symmetric processors (SMP) are counted as one node, because they share the same IP address, but two instances of virtual- machines running on a single-processor computer are counted as two odes because they have different IP addresses. CONTRIBUTION: A suggestion to add to, delete from, improve or modify THE PRODUCT, including, but not limited to, in descriptive language or algorithm specification. 2. OWNERSHIP: THE PRODUCT is the intellectual property of the Copyright owner (currently, Amnon Barak or Amnon Shiloh or both). You agree that THE PRODUCT, in whole or in part, including any derivative, is, and shall at all times remain the property of the Copyright owner. You shall have no right, title or interest therein or thereto except as expressly set forth in this LICENSE. 3. USING THE PRODUCT: You may use THE PRODUCT only as an END-USER and only to run and make backup copies of THE PRODUCT in association with computer devices. You may run THE PRODUCT on up to 6 nodes at any given time. You acknowledge that in case you configure more than the above number of nodes as part of your cluster and/or multi-cluster, the MOSIX soft- ware may stop functioning (fully or partially) - even if the number of nodes that actually run THE PRODUCT has not exceeded the above limit (however, the fact that MOSIX functions correctly does not necessarily indicate that the number of permitted nodes was not exceeded). 4. PROHIBITED USES: Any use of THE PRODUCT not specifically permitted by the Copyright owner is hereby excluded from this License Agreement. In particular, this also implies that you are not allowed to rent, lease, sell, sublicense, assign, modify, re-distribute, reverse-engineer, make commercial products based on THE PRODUCT, or otherwise transfer or provide copies of THE PRODUCT or any part of THE PRODUCT to any other party without the prior written permission of the Copyright owner. Also, under this NON-PROFIT LICENSE, you may not use THE PRODUCT to derive any income or commercial benefits for yourself, another person, a company, or any other for-profit incorporated body. You may however evaluate THE PRODUCT in a commercial environment to test its suitability for use with commercial products. 5. CONTRIBUTIONS: You have no obligation to send the Copyright owner any CONTRIBUTION to THE PRODUCT. By sending CONTRIBUTIONS to the Copyright owner, you relinquish your rights to those CONTRIBUTIONS, and make them the intellectual property of the Copyright owner (with all the legal implications). The Copyright owner will not be obliged to include the CONTRIBUTIONS or any parts thereof in future releases of THE PRODUCT. Before sending any CONTRIBUTION, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure that your CONTRIBUTION is your own creation and that it is free from any conflicting License, Patent, Trademark, trade-secret, or other intellectual-property rights. 6. REVERSE-ENGINEERING: Reverse-engineering of THE PRODUCT is not allowed. 7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: THE COPYRIGHT OWNER, AS WELL AS ANY PREVIOUS COPYRIGHT OWNER, MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, CONCERNING THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 8. LACK OF SERVICES: YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PRODUCT IS BEING SUPPLIED ``AS IS'', WITHOUT ANY ACCOMPANYING SERVICES. THE COPYRIGHT OWNER, AS WELL AS ANY PREVIOUS COPYRIGHT OWNER, DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. 9. 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Your obligations include, but are not limited to, your obligation to indemnify, defend, and hold the Copyright owner as well as any previous Copyright owner, their agents, officers and employees harmless in the case of any claim of copyright, trade secret, patent, or any other type of proprietary rights infringement based in any manner on your use of THE PRODUCT as well as your failure for whatever reason to disclose such infringements relating to your CONTRIBUTIONS. 10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: THE COPYRIGHT OWNER, AS WELL AS ANY PREVIOUS COPYRIGHT OWNER, SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS, DAMAGES, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS), FEES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ATTORNEY'S FEES, OR OTHER LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM BY LICENSEE OR ANY THIRD PARTY ON ACCOUNT OF OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR USE OF THE PRODUCT. 11. AUSTRALIAN LAW: This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of AUSTRALIA only. The courts of Australia and specifically and uniquely the courts in the state of South Australia, Australia shall have the sole and only jurisdiction to adjudicate any matter or dispute related to or in connection with this License Agreement. Thank you for your interest in MOSIX. RPMs for openSUSE The distribution consists of the kernel for MOSIX RPM and the corresponding MOSIX-utils RPM. Latest RPMs for: openSUSE 11.1 32-bit kernel for MOSIX MOSIX-utils openSUSE 11.1 64-bit kernel for MOSIX MOSIX-utils Older RPMs can be found here. To add the SUSE-MOSIX repository, run: > zypper ar http://www.mosix.org/mos2suse suse-mosix To install, run: > zypper install kernel-mosix mosix-utils For General Linux Distributions The latest 32-bit distribution is MOSIX-2.26.0.0-i386 for Linux Kernel-2.6.30. Configuration and installation instructions are provided in the README file and the User's and Administrator's guides. Older distributions can be found here.   Related software can be found here. For Virtual Clusters - Linux and Windows A pre-installed virtual-disk image, based on VMware server, Debian 4.0 and MOSIX-2.24.2.2-i386 (32-bit), can be used to create a MOSIX virtual cluster on Linux and/or Windows computers. Installation instructions are provided here.

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