Can Windows and Linux communicate in terms of BOINC?

[jasong]

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 :D ) and could get BOINC files from a Windows hard drive, and report back to Windows.

Doable? ...by a novice?

[moddolicous]

The only way I could see that even remotely working is if you could do something with DSL (Damn Small Linux). I know nothing about linux, so I'm really no help. Just some ideas I'm putting out there.

[jasong]

I'm going to the main BOINC page and hope they have a forum that can help me. I'll post a link if it gets interesting.