A certain member of this list who worked at a place with lots of desktops used to dual boot the machines - he had linux as the default, so people would just be told to reboot at 5.00 pm and they would join the cluster.
When the user got in in the morning they would reboot and choose windows from the grub/lilo menu. Also you can use distcc and gcc on windows as I understand it (via cygwin I am guessing) - that way you can be using the machines during the day too, people will just complain that they are going slower <evil grin> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:21:46 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter wrote: > I have already bound 14 of our developers PC's into a 14 way distcc > compile farm. Grreat! Works very well. > > Personally I have bigger plans and plotches though (don't tell anyone...) > in a company the size of Tait's with all the Linux PC's we have I can > build New Zealands largest super computer.... > > Out of vanilla desktops... > > And no one need know... -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
