remote operation or admin

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
>I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1
>is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual
>PPC).  I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want
>one or both of them: either some software to let me merely remotely manage
>them (public software, mind)

What do you see "remotely manage them" covering?  For a small
heterogenous network, it's not clear what you would save over just
sticking the config files into CVS or similar.

> or, even better, something to get these
>disparate hardwares to be able to work together, and (as much as possible)
>to be able to share work.

Again, what do you mean by "share work"?  Are you looking for
something like beowulf?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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