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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Welcome to the team Sapient
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My old Dual Core is finally being repaired and should be back with me tommorow, just to add an occasional few extra results.
----------------------------------------Primarily I'll be using it to finally learn how to use Linux, not being a main cruncher, it'll give me good experiance, but for now, what Linux would be the best for a 1st timer? (needs to be one that is easy to learn, but also one that runs Boinc, or through the use of additional programs, get Boinc running on it?). Any advice is very welcome but also will need to be as simple as possible, I've always run Windows and I know very very very little about Linux. Cheers [Edit 1 times, last edit by themoonscrescent at Sep 13, 2012 2:07:06 PM] |
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sapient
Cruncher UK Joined: Jan 7, 2005 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for all the kind welcomes!
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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...what Linux would be the best for a 1st timer? I'd recommend Ubuntu, I still use an older version (10.04 long-term-support) on my laptop as I'm not a fan of the newer window-manager (Unity - looks a bit too much like Mac OS-X) they're using in the more recent versions. Ubuntu is pretty user-friendly, compared to debian that it's based off. I hopefully should be able to answer any questions you may have, when installing/using it, too - feel free to ask, I'll try to answer! You can get it from here --> http://www.ubuntu.com  |
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adamhill1988
Cruncher Joined: Jul 5, 2012 Post Count: 19 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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+1 for ubuntu, i've tried quite a few, linux mint etc, there generally all the same, but with ubuntu you have a much larger community, not that they are particularly helpful. No I'm afraid anyone looking to get into linux is not going to have it easy. It is worthwhile if you can get to grips with it though. I cant even imagine hosting any sort of service on a none linux machine, well unless it was unix but thats beyond me
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crooks_uk
Veteran Cruncher England Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Post Count: 1013 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Welcome to the team Sapient.
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@ adamhill1988 & Thargor:
----------------------------------------Cheers for the advice and thankyou for the offer of support (got a feeling I'll need it), , Ubuntu 10.04 it will be.I've been meaning to give it a bash for a few years, but I didn't want to disrput the crunching (only having a limited amount of cores), but as this system has been down for over a year and I haven't really missed it, I thought that now would be a good time to learn and if it throws a few work units out as well, then all the better  .I have briefly read that the 32 bit version of Linux can be complied to read over 4 gig of ram (saving having to install the 64 bit version), but I have no idea how to do this? i won't Need to do this for the dual core as it only has 3 or 4 gig of ram, but it would be useful to know for the future. Thanx |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It'll really depend on whether your chipset supports PAE (wiki) or not, although it's not usually a good idea to use it unless you absolutely have to, especially if your chipset will support a 64-bit version of Ubuntu...
----------------------------------------And, in Ubuntu 10.04 and above (possibly earlier versions, too), the BOINC client and manager are both available via standard repositories (kind of similar to Windows Update but with more apps/etc available), so you can install it via the Update Manager (or with apt if you fancy keeping to command-line operation). Then it's just a case of configuring your password(s), remote-hosts that are allowed to control that machine, and off you go. |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Oh, and that's what I get for trying to be too specific with the workunits my five new-ish VMs in work can run - they've had no work since some time on Wednesday morning, possibly earlier, as I have to disable the "get other work if nothing is available" option to prevent them downloading CFSW work-units (on account of the memory-usage with them being so high).
----------------------------------------I've been away from the internet for a few days, so haven't had chance to check on them. It has, however, been a very good few relaxing days away from technology! |
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Mike D Green
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Post Count: 89 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Another +1 for Ubuntu. I'm running 12.0.4 on a couple of Thinkpads which do nothing but sit there in a corner and grow warmish running BOINC. I'm using the 64 bit pre-compiled version and it's
----------------------------------------a) very easy to install b) does everything you need to get BOINC running remarkably easily c) if you want to run BOINCTASKS and TTHROTTLE, then it's /reasonably/ easy to do once you know that you need to install the WINE Windows emulator environment / VM and install them within it. Starting from knowing nothing about using Linux it only took me a couple of hours to get the first machine fully up and running from a blank disk. So, if all you want is BOINC and BOINCTASKS running, I can also offer guidance since I did this today, for the second time ;-) Mike  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Mike D Green at Sep 14, 2012 12:43:24 AM] |
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