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Former Member
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Two pieces of news on kernel 3.7, just release. This will please the ARM/Android watchers http://www.zdnet.com/linux-3-7-arrives-arm-developers-rejoice-7000008638/ and those that sit in a mixed Windows / Linux environment will find the smb2 file sharing enabling of interest [moi], and that should speed up operations. How it links into this Samba 4.0 news https://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/4.0.0.html I've not dug into understanding, but samba is one of the first things I usually install on a new clean Linux to enable filesharing the easy way.
Samba is the leading technology choice for Windows file serving on Linux and UNIX platforms and in embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Samba is used by vendors selling NAS solutions ranging from high end clustered business-critical systems, to low end consumer devices, and everything in between. Samba is fully IPv6 enabled and meets all mandates for modern network interoperability. |
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Former Member
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If there were a second life upgrade path on Linux for former 386 Windows machines, it's ending... Linus axed it from the kernel:
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/linux-drop...-386-processors-20121212/ To think that I'd retired the 486 over 6 years ago (but I might give it a go, and see if I can get Linux to run on it, once I know how to fix the HD controller issue that cropped up near the decommission date). |
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Former Member
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Preparing for a testspin on my Corsair 64GB USB 3.0 drive, the latest Fedora 18 in 64 bit: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options and the BOINC package prepped for these new release: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/boinc-client
----------------------------------------How difficult can it be with a jettable install... if :( just unplug and back to the good Ubuntu 12.10 instance. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 15, 2013 7:37:29 PM] |
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Former Member
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Update: Installed Fedora 18 iso on the 64GB stick, selecting a 10GB disc allocation using Unetbootin (v581) as installer help on Windows and was zooming in notime [Firefox ready to roll]. Did though miss the very easy Software Center as with Ubuntu... selecting "software" from fast search launcher brought up the RPM management program, but it was utterly empty. Have to dig to see how to get it filled up [or maybe it only lists what was installed, or maybe it's called yum... will try next time when booting in to experiment].
----------------------------------------P.S. Read that someone managed to get Arch installed on a $25 Raspberry Pi, complete with instructions. Arch is for the real "hand-on" folk me thinketh, not the "I love GUI" moi, but who know in another 2 year of "I'm not a Linux Adept", will that happen ;o) edit: Where I got unetbootin [available for Windows, Mac, Linux]: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ... it's actually v 583 now to update the pre-load list of available distros. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 16, 2013 9:42:29 AM] |
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Former Member
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Arggh, curse Ubuntu/BOINC and it's darn WIFI in-stability. Booted the router, internet would not come back for 15 minutes and sequentially 15 C4CW and 2 CEP2 bombed with either signal 11 or error 139. Ever since all C4CW are getting a "Pending Verification" which likely will persist till the validator find 5 sequential to carry their approval.
----------------------------------------Edit: Just when you get some confidence it's not happening anymore, kicked in the teeth. So next time and onwards, suspend networking on the Linux host again whenever restarting the router till internet is confirmed to be back up again  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 16, 2013 4:55:43 PM] |
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GeraldRube
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Update: Installed Fedora 18 iso on the 64GB stick, selecting a 10GB disc allocation using Unetbootin (v581) as installer help on Windows and was zooming in notime [Firefox ready to roll]. Did though miss the very easy Software Center as with Ubuntu... selecting "software" from fast search launcher brought up the RPM management program, but it was utterly empty. Have to dig to see how to get it filled up [or maybe it only lists what was installed, or maybe it's called yum... will try next time when booting in to experiment]. P.S. Read that someone managed to get Arch installed on a $25 Raspberry Pi, complete with instructions. Arch is for the real "hand-on" folk me thinketh, not the "I love GUI" moi, but who know in another 2 year of "I'm not a Linux Adept", will that happen ;o) edit: Where I got unetbootin [available for Windows, Mac, Linux]: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ... it's actually v 583 now to update the pre-load list of available distros. Let us know how it crunches Boinc--i passed on Fedora --i like Lubuntu and Linux Mint--i do have Ubuntu running on two machines   |
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Former Member
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An interesting solution to those on Linux who find that BOINC is not pausing, by not detecting user input [mouse/keyboard]. If then, execute
xhost local:boinc source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC It has to be executed before boinc daemon is started, so guess for Ubuntu it would have to go into the /etc/init.d/boinc-client startup script in a line before the daemon is started. Hope it helps (plz confirm if it does). |
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Funniest for a long time, but whatever tickles the fancy, How to make Ubuntu look like Windows 7 , of much greater interest [to me] is Ubuntu Performance Troubleshooting.
Enjoy riding the weekend hobbyhorse :D |
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Sgt.Joe
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I took the plunge and switched one of my octo systems to 64 bit Linux (Linux Mint 14). In addition to being a little more stable due to being a newer release I was pleasantly surprised at the increased efficiency with the VINA projects, about 30% - from about 22-24 points per hour to 34-36 points per hour. I know Sekerob has reported this increased efficiency in the past, but I did not believe it was so much. I am glad I made the switch.
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Sgt. Joe
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yojimbo197
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I've seen about a 37% decrease(from 19 minutes to 12) in the time it took for CPU+GPU HCC1 projects since I switched over to Linux 14 Cinnamon on my puny 1G GDDR5 HD6670 on the same system. I have also noticed that the CPU projects are taking shorter times, including CEP2, but I am not sure about the exact numbers.
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