On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Grant wrote:

> > > Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet?
> > > I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense
> > > to buy one these days.
> >
> > I often have old machines given to me or find companies throwing out
> > perfectly functioning old machines - clean them up, put in new drives and
> > fans in and they work just fine!
>
> I obviously don't know anything about this, but I remember reading
> about how Gentoo is going in the direction of allowing you to chain
> the processing power of a bunch of machines together.  Is that
> distributed computing?

Well distcc allows you to do this for emerges. I wouldn't be suprised if
some more generic framework was being worked on...


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