Spent most of the week-end finishing and fine-tuning my installation of Gentoo Linux on two old boxes I have. It is very stable and more responsive than Red Hat 7.3 I used previously on these two boxes. The only drawback is that I now have two OpenMosix clusters: One with three machines running Red Hat 7.3/kernel 2.4.16 and one with two machines running Gentoo 1.4_rc4/kernel 2.4.20. I'll probably start to convert one more Red Hat machine to Gento tonight. And the rest over the next week-end. I am also discussing with somebody about getting 6 more machines!
The only major problem I had was with distcc. I just couldn't make it work. I followed the instructions, tried many things but it just won't distribute. I'll have to simply rely on OpenMosix to distribute task on the machines of the cluster. This do works. I used it to compile Samba without any problems at all.
I am also thinkering with the idea of installing Blender on all my Linux machines to distribute the load when rendering. I discovered a very nice utility allowing the distribution of a blender job on an OpenMosix cluster. I'll try this one over the week-end too.
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