From Debian Clusters

About Debian

Debian is one of many different "flavors" of Linux, an open source operating system based on Unix that uses GNU software conglomeration. Several other Linux flavors have been based on Debian in order to take advantage of its powerful package system, including Ubuntu and Knoppix.

Other than Linux, common mainstream operating systems include the Microsoft Windows family and the Macintosh OS X family.

Debian for Clusters

This entire project is Debian-based. This means that my cluster uses Debian as the operating system on all of its nodes. However, it's pretty hard to jump right into my cluster documentation if you're unfamiliar with installing Debian, so I've created a walkthrough on installing Debian.

I'm also creating more advanced Debian documentation on how to tune the Linux kernel within Debian. This can be used to add advanced functionality to the operating system, as well as to remove functionality not really needed.