DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Would you donate your DSL system ...

Sounds like BOINC

There are quite a few projects to "donate" your cycles to.

There is a linux client, so making a .dsl shouldn't be too difficult...
Porbably a lot easier than getting an openmosix kernel to run in dsl.

BOINC runs really well on DSL.

I don't know that making a myDSL of BOINC would really be needed, as the standard install is very easy - just download and run the self installing package.

If you're interested in setting up a pc to run as a dedicated, remote BOINC cruncher I've written a HOWTO

Quote (newby @ July 20 2006,08:25)

My vision is of a light weight Linux distribution with openMosix as an option. The user could then go to a website and click on a checkbox to chose a project to donate processor cycles to. Payment, if any, could go to a charity and/or to the opensource development team(s) for the distribution and tools used.

G'day Newby

You might find this thread of interest -OpenMosix ClusterKnoppix

No, I would not be willing to donate my Linux system to cure cancer or AIDS.

There are already several perfectly good cures for cancer, and the cure for AIDS is proper nutrition and to stop taking powerful deadly drugs, especially chain terminators.

When you support programs to "find a cure", you are actually funding the drug companies, who have financial motivation for, and a history of, hiding actual cures while they push their addictive drugs on suffering people who don't know any better. And most people don't know any better.

I might be willing to donate my extra CPU cycles if I found a worthy cause I believed in, but my trust in humanity is slim. The project results would have to be open to everybody.

Quote (Winter Knight @ Aug. 07 2006,22:30)

I might be willing to donate my extra CPU cycles if I found a worthy cause I believed in, but my trust in humanity is slim. The project results would have to be open to everybody.

We're actually on the same page here. My intent is to create a system that:

1. Supports DSL, and

2. Allows research to be done at the less institutional level. Independent researchers, researchers from poor communities/countries, et cetera.

and then there's the classic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP applications...

Regards,
newby

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