Mozilla 1.2.1 and jared's cluster

[david nicol]

Here's what to do with Jared's cluster.  We set up a /usr/local/bin
on it that can be mounted onto all members' machines over not NFS
but something with a huge local cache -- perhaps CODA? -- and then
Rich plays gatekeeper to the write privs to that directory.

Centralization of administration functions.  When the kclug central
admin committee decides it's upgrade time, all participatants are
upgraded, through the magic of CODAfs noticing that the mod time
on the server has changed.

...

Or, a very very light linux distribution that is a single floppy
that performs DHCP and then contacts HQ ( for coordinates to the
closest mirror ) and downloads whatever the user wants; and
registers itself with the general CPU grid.

Participating users would not even get to be root on their own machines,
maybe.  

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:11, Rich Edelman wrote:
> Note for anyone running Gentoo:
> 
> I know the purpose of Gentoo is to have something completely optimized for 
> your arch, but Mozilla takes forever to compile, and most optimizations above 
> i686 don't make any noticeable improvements (according to folks at 
> Mandrakesoft and AMD, anyway). As such, I'm willing to make binary packages 
> of Mozilla available for anyone that wants them, using opts of i686 and 
> Gentoo's default USE variables.

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