bloodline wrote:
What you are describing is part of MacOS X, it's called XGrid...
And QNX (QNet), and
OpenMOSIX, and what DragonFly BSD is working towards, and...
It could be interesting to stuff some sort of generic sandboxed VM (the JVM, Parrot, etc) into inetd highly-niced (mm, jargon), but you'd still have to find something high-latency, unreliable nodes are good for. It *would* take the onus off the user to remember to update S@H/F@H clients manually or through native mechanisms, but you'd also lose the candy that attracts people to some of those projects ("ooh, pretty screensaver").
Edit: This probably reads more like English with the 'to' put into the paragraph above, now that I notice.
