What about integrating some distributed computing system into Mandrake? There are a couple of open-source systems that generalize over the [EMAIL PROTECTED] setup:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu http://qadpz.sourceforge.net I -and, I guess, many other users- would be happy to give my idle computing power -and I have several Mandrake machines running most of the time- to Mandrake in exchange of, say, Club membership, Mandrake packages. (Or cash) Would it be very hard for Mandrake to sell all those petaflops commercially? I've been Goggling around and I've found .15$/hour for a new Compac (http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/4467) and 7500$/year for a 400Mhz PII (http://www.mithral.com/pressroom/archive/2000-11-SciAm.html). I mean, all of us want Mandrake (the company) to survive financially, but many aren't ready to actually pay them. This would be a way to give back that would not actually cost a penny to users. (at least, for those users to whom the company or Daddy pay the electric bill) Even if the cash cow is not feasible -and I can't think why not- it would be nice to have some OS distributed computing effort integrated on Mandrake. That would mean *so* much computing power... ===== -- Ezequiel Mart�n C�mara http://www.geocities.com/ezequielmartin http://www.radicalparty.org ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es Juega a la Loter�a Primitiva sin salir de casa
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