New Linux query?
22 Dec 2005 7:50:32 UTC
Topic 190427
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I've been running BOINC on my Mac and a Windows PC on my LAN and have just finished expunging Windows completely.
I'd like to get the PC busy again with BOINC and have a preliminary question. I put up Debian GNU/Linux (3.1 r1) on the PC and wondered if anyone is having any issues with BOINC on the platform?
Thank you,
Lee C
New Linux query?
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Don't know if Debian GNU/Linux (3.1 r1) would work, but I am running
SUSE 8.1 and 9.3. Both working fine with BOINC 5.
Just give it a try!
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: I'd like to get the PC
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So it works! It is this machine, maybe one of the slowest in the whole project ;^)
http://einsteinathome.org/host/54230
As far as I have tried, it runs on almost all x86 Linux platforms. If you have an old one, like Suse 7.3, then you need to copy a libc.so from e newer linux und start boinc with LD_PRELOAD= boinc -options
RE: ... wondered if
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May Platform is Slackware. Similar yet different from yours.
I tried to install BOINC 5.2.13 binaries. There's a very annoying problem with the boincmgr program - all the text is gone. All the buttons show up without any text. Same thing with menu entries and labels. So I gave up upgrading to that version, and fell back on using the 5.2.4 version I've been running. It has similar problems, but I know how to start it from the command line.
The boincmgr program complains about not finding "libindustrial.so" on startup. Locating that library may be the problem - but I'm too non bothered to find out.
So there *may* be problems. But Debian I guess is more "mainstream" than Slack, so maybe not :-) .
Greetings, Mr Ragnar Schroder
Thanks all, Lee C
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Thanks all,
Lee C
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Hello
I downloaded the linux version (5.2.13) from the BOINC website and did a sh install on several systems - still trying 'em out - SUSE, Debian, DSL to name a few. The only issue I ever had was when I installed Bastille to increase the security of the box and ummmm, errr... made it too secure. Other than that BOINC ran fine and indeed my Einstein WU ran around an hour or so less time than XP :)
Best wishes
Gray