Traditionally, the telecom industry has used clusters to meet its carrier-grade requirements of high availability, reliability and scalability, while relying on cost-effective hardware and software.

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I did something recently I haven’t done in a long time: I recompiled the Linux kernel. There was a time when this was a common occurrence. You might want a feature that the default kernel didn’t ...