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Former Member
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Gerald, this might be of interest... saw it a few weeks ago, discussing distro-hoppers... a little tongue in cheek ;o)
http://eyeonlinux.com/2011/07/15/the-dark-side-of-distrohopping/ Kernel 3.0 has a slight delay. https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/2BXkWyrY4jH My plan is to go to next Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot when it's out... my quad when looking in this morning into the byobu enhanced terminal view was booted 8 days ago... for least crunch interruption. :D --//-- |
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So happened that a first alpha review was posted on Ocelot
http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/23100...PdxDae29-dR+Iw**.ecappj03 Speedier and User Friendlier, again. --//-- |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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So happened that a first alpha review was posted on Ocelot http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/23100...PdxDae29-dR+Iw**.ecappj03 Speedier and User Friendlier, again. --//-- Yes Ubuntu is my favorite but i cant resist trying other flavors--the main reason being running WCG at utmost performance   |
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Thanks for that. Ksplice reported 2 days ago that my latest kernel upgrade to 2.6.35-27.bld 48 was "not yet" in their db, but today the yellow triangle on the panel status icon went away and status reported as nominal/up to date, so it's working to satisfaction this far. Discovered some glibc troubles today which had been there since Feb.20 and only showing in DDDT2 result logs [still validating], applied the temporary fix of adding a line to /etc/profile of export MALLOC_CHECK_=0, which removed the alerting messages and noted that it may have relation to NVIDIA drivers and or OpenOffice ... actually removed that and had installed LibreOffice 3.3.1 from Synaptic on 10.10 so will see if it returns. It's said it could have the inverse effect on the next update, then requiring for the line to be removed again. We'll see... the fix did not affect the performance... still crunching at 99.8% efficiency if left alone and the GUI/x-org has been stopped. Kind of eager to actually put me hands on the first RC of Natty as some major performance enhancing reworks are coming in there and the next 2.6.39 kernel. --//-- edit: 99.8% efficiency per remote monitoring BOINCTasks Regrettably, whilst nothing wrong with the owners selling their little company to Oracle, latter has announced that it will no longer supporta number of other distro's, so expecting for that icon on that panel to go off-color at some time in the future. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTY5Mg Up to now, Ksplice has been offered for free to Ubuntu and Fedora users while a product subscription is required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, etc. Oracle is looking to use Ksplice to bolster its Oracle Linux operating system and to make Oracle Ksplice part of their Oracle Linux Premier Support program. :(--//-- |
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Plum time, yes it is, must have fetched 150kg from the few trees, drying most, immensely sweet this year. In software land the last 3 NVidia driver updates offered by Synaptic turned the system unstable and required booting. The version went within a few iterations from 270 via 275 to now 280.13. The details, if worth having:
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/298596 This one seemed to have stuck with me install for longer * Fixed a GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap bug that caused corruption when ..., so we'll see if the panel is now properly responding to mouse actions. --//-- |
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Former Member
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For the interested, on a hint, found the Debian ppa repository that holds the 6.12.33 ported BOINC package. After some prepping, added it to the Synaptic package manager and ran the install for Natty. After, the client properly loaded and BOINC Manager started and continued on with the work under way.
----------------------------------------The BOINC Manager was glossed up, think it looks better than the windows version. Nice is that there's now finally an icon in the panel system area and a snooze function now being available. Get it here: https://launchpad.net/~pkg-boinc/+archive/ppa Caveat: It's according the BOINC Manager About Help view an x86 aka 32 bit client, but that does not matter any more, since 32 bit clients will fetch available 64 bit sciences and sure enough when a Clean Water was fetched, it got the 64 bit version. The benchmark was also identical to the 6.10.59 I had running on this box. At any rate, now running a good 48 hours, flawlessly operating and the 15 task cache showing there are 10 repair jobs assigned to this host [CW+CE]... seal of reliability given by WCG. :D --//-- edit: To add, the 6.10.59 client was the 64bit version [64bit OS of course], so the 6.12.33 install proofed able the take it's place. The 64 bit benchmark was same was the new 32 bit... and now I wonder, is the core client maybe still 64 bits. It so comes that the installer on Ubuntu was really 3 packages, the BM, the CC and a 3rd for other bits. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 13, 2011 7:03:37 PM] |
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marvey11
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: Apr 2, 2011 Post Count: 89 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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SekeRob,
----------------------------------------if I understand you correctly, then you are already running the 6.12.x client? And you have no problems whatsoever? If you can confirm this, then I think it's time for me to make the switch also... If my information is correct, then the Ubuntu 11.10 will ship with a 6.12.x client anyway so why wait longer... Marvey  |
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Former Member
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marvey11,
----------------------------------------Consciously I did leave out the para on Oneiric, but did find the launchpad page where an Oreiric fit build of 6.12.33 was offered. Hesitating to give a Go, simply because there is not absolute certainty yet if this is the final build for Linux (Synaptic would take care to offer an upgrade). The Berkeley developers were actually pointed to the work done by the distro porters as their .sh set has install issues... don't remember exact details! My original plan was to wait for Ocelot too, but decided to jump to give it a whirl and report any issues to the developers... so far none :D --//-- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 13, 2011 7:14:55 PM] |
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marvey11
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: Apr 2, 2011 Post Count: 89 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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OK, thanks for the info. Meanwhile I have the client installed and running. No problems here so far, either (only need to get used to the new look and a few rearranged things in the Manager).
----------------------------------------EDIT: ... and also a few renamed options in boinccmd, e.g. --get_results is now --get_tasks [Edit 1 times, last edit by marvey11 at Aug 13, 2011 8:39:09 PM] |
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I just installed 6.12.33 on one of my machines (under Lucid).
----------------------------------------A difference that we should be aware of with the BOINC Manager is that File -- Close window in 6.12.33 leaves the BOINC Manager running (and using 9% of one thread's CPU cycles on my machine). To close down the BOINC Manager, I had to use File -- Exit and leave the boxes unchecked in the dialog that came up. So far I too am encountering no problems -- just differences.  |
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