Thread 'Can Windows and Linux communicate to run BOINC?'

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jasong Send message Joined: 4 Jul 06 Posts: 13	Message 4915 - Posted: 4 Jul 2006, 20:23:49 UTC Can I have a Windows box give out BOINC tasks to a Linux box without too much headache? What would be really awesome would be a thumb-drived based Linux who's main job would be to boot Linux into RAM(my lingo may be off :) ) and could get BOINC files from a Windows hard drive, and report back to Windows. Doable? ...by a novice? I have nothing but time on my hands, plus a cap on how much I can have in the bank(based on the odd welfare laws in Arkansas) so I'd love to build a big farm with best bang for buck with the money I have. ID: 4915 ·

KSMarksPsych Send message Joined: 30 Oct 05 Posts: 1239	Message 4923 - Posted: 5 Jul 2006, 14:21:24 UTC - in response to Message 4915. Can I have a Windows box give out BOINC tasks to a Linux box without too much headache? What would be really awesome would be a thumb-drived based Linux who's main job would be to boot Linux into RAM(my lingo may be off :) ) and could get BOINC files from a Windows hard drive, and report back to Windows. Doable? ...by a novice? I have nothing but time on my hands, plus a cap on how much I can have in the bank(based on the odd welfare laws in Arkansas) so I'd love to build a big farm with best bang for buck with the money I have. I don't think it's possible. IIRC, wus have to be dl, crunched and ul by the same computer. Also, there are usually different application versions for the different OSes. Kathryn :o) ID: 4923 ·

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