Ok, so we have a largish collection of developers, each with a Linux
system on their desk.

Mostly something of the order of a 512Mb ram, 2.4Ghz Pentium4 + 40Gb
diskspace.

At the start of the project (a year or three back) somebody (not me)
chose Mandrake 9.1 and that is what most of the guys have.

That is all getting fairly long in the tooth and now that Dapper Drake
is out I'm contemplating rolling out Ubuntu 6 to everybody in the team.

Now I have wired up everybody with distcc & ccache to speed compiles but
still....

Preprocessing, splint and linking and unit test steps are all on the
source machine and not distributed.

What if I roll out the new distro with a clustering file system and load
balancing job queuing  and.....?

Question:

Has anybody here done something like this?





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