Distributed render on non MAC machines

Hi. I have a little cluster running on 1 MacPro 4cores and 2 imacs, and was wondering if it was possible to add more horse power using freeBSD standard pc's to render using Qmaster, theoretically I should add each node as shh.
I'm not using compressor to render, but I'll need to render QT movies, though.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Hi Jon! Thanks for the reply! What I'm talking about is Creating an Extended Node Cluster(Using Nodes Without Apple Qmaster Installed) (Apple Qmaster 3 Manual Page 23)
I know qmaster must run on a MAC but was wondering if creating an Extended node would help to render using command line applications. Using a MacPro as Cluster Controller and freeBSD machines as SSH nodes.
Thanks for your time
Agustin

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