As you may have read on the project’s web site, the goal of MySQL­HA is oprovide a freely available and community supported clustering tool kit based on MySQL, and focused on service availability. We’ll dissect that sentence to reveal that it’s not just a quick marketing trick, but a real mission statement. Freely available. This is easy to see, since the code is GPL, plus, it’s mostly shell and perl scripts, which is inherently open source. Community supported. This is very important now that the project is sponsored by an IT company. What it means is that it’s not that useful to have a freely available clustering solution if it’s not properly documented and easy to use. We’re working on the easy to use part, by focusing our current development efforts on a better installer. As for the other part, this document is the first on a set of tools we’re developing, along with the code, in order to allow people to make the best of the code with no need for commercial support.
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What is Linux? Why is it better to choose Linux than Windows®? Why choose Mandriva over other Linux products? What’s new in Mandriva Linux 2007? Mandriva Linux 2007 product range Mandriva Linux: Web 2.0 ready! Mandriva Linux Services Mandriva Linux 2007 Services Glossary In 1983, Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project, with the goal of developing a complete Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software. By the beginning of the 1990s, GNU had produced or collected most of the necessary components of this system except for the core component, the kernel. In 1991, the Linux kernel was created as a hobby by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds.
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