Another great memory, thank you! I do remember setting up distcc just for trying it out (and fun) and knowing how to do it. It was completely not really worth it for what I was doing, because the only other machine I had was the old Pentium 200 MMX (! ;)) I was using as my router. But it sure was fun to do and learn from. So many things "kids these days" probably won't experience as there's a cloud option for that that already does this for you and better.
Then again, I suppose there are so many things we never got to play with (and instead played w/ the aforementioned). Like when I told my dad I was playing around with vmware and xen and such and he'd just be like "Oh yeah right, virtualization, like what we've been running on our IBM mainframe since like forever". But sure, have fun, explore, learn!
If anything, Linux and all this free software has done a great job of taking this out of the hands of huge corporations and having to work for them just be allowed to play and learn. Anyone could do that now.
Then again, I suppose there are so many things we never got to play with (and instead played w/ the aforementioned). Like when I told my dad I was playing around with vmware and xen and such and he'd just be like "Oh yeah right, virtualization, like what we've been running on our IBM mainframe since like forever". But sure, have fun, explore, learn!
If anything, Linux and all this free software has done a great job of taking this out of the hands of huge corporations and having to work for them just be allowed to play and learn. Anyone could do that now.