Then you will be able to double-click it, or run it from a command line as (./boinc_VERSION_.sh).The boinc_VERSION_.sh file needs to be run, so you first need to give it execution permissions (by default it is a non-executable file).This is an auto self-extracting file, that has to be installed as follows: In order to use the second method, go to the BOINC download link on the official BOINC site and download the installer, which has a name of the form "boinc_VERSION_.sh". If you do not know which is the best method for you, we recommend you to use the second method. If your distribution only has version 6, then, you should use the second method. The first solution could be the easiest one, however, before installing it via this way, double check that the version that you are going to install is >= 7.0. or Using the self BOINC installer provided by the official BOINC team.Using the distribution packaging system (apt-get, yum, conary, etc.),.In GNU/Linux systems there are two possible ways of installing BOINC: Here's a step-by-step video to help guide you through the Linux set-up. A step-by-step online tutorial about for Mac users is available at.Download the BOINC client installer from the official BOINC site, and follow the instructions without modifying the default options.A step-by-step online tutorial about for Windows users is available at.Download the BOINC client installer from the official BOINC site, and follow the instructions without modifying the default options.Before double-clicking in the installer, please check the following notes depending on your operating system: Windows OS nevermind.Note that while set-up is automatic, it does vary under the hood from one operating system to another. Oh wait, I'm poor and using old computers with free Linux. maybe I could work out deals with some of the more popular projects to use their logos on custom enclosures so that crunchers could show off their grid networking box to their envious friends. You'll even be able to buy a custom built BOINC computer on my website. If I win the lotto, I'll set up a room of computers with various OS configs and benchmark BOINC projects and share the results. Fedora wouldn't even run the full GUI on the older system. It's quite possible that the default Mint config taxed the CPU less than the default Ubuntu config. I am new to Linux so I don't know all of the tricks to optimize system performance. I agree with your statements on GUI settings having an effect on performance. ) (I wrote about this in one of my blogs.) I do feel that the hand of fate was involved somehow as I was thinking of doing a full install, and when I realized that "something bad" had happened to the partition with the Windows XP restore files. My main reason for switching to Linux is that I just wanted to try it I had to chuckle at your comment on being lucky to lose XP. Wouldn't it be difficult to benchmark projects? From what I understand of the nature of distributed computing, you wouldn't get the same data file to crunch on two different computers, right? Though I guess if you did it for a large sample of projects then the differences would average out sorry you had such a bad time with Windows. Unfortunately I lost my Win XP Pro OS so I can't go back. If I ran an OS from within a virtual machine, wouldn't the VM introduce system overhead, that would skew the results? (I have no experience with VM's) so my very unscientific personal conclusion was that Ubuntu took more resources to run, one reason I chose Mint. Ubuntu seemed to be sluggish on the older machine. Before I decided on what Linux distro to convert to, I tried Ubuntu and Mint on an older machine. Why not make your machines dual-boot or run VMs and try it for yourself? Would be both interesting and useful for all of us Interesting that Ubuntu was the the slow Linux OS. Rest of the time I just let them crunch a couple of maths projects that they seem to do quite well. I only run a couple of linux boxes these days just to try projects that are linux only. This was a while ago, can't even find the spreadsheet that I made as I was doing the tests, things have moved on since then anyway. Just the apps from the projects, how they were compiled etc etc. Some were notably agonisingly slow (Spinhenge, take a bow!). There were exceptions, 2 projects in particular were twice as fast. On average Ubuntu was 33% slower than XP. I then made a clean Ubuntu install and repeated the benchmarks. Is this true?Ī while a ago I benchmarked a PC across as many projects as possible with a clean Win XP install. Recently a fellow cruncher stated that BOINC was optimized for Windows and would be less efficient on Linux.
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