OS Troubles.

[Ayah]

With Microsoft's crackdown on silly not quite so legal software. I'm looking at running 3 to 5 copies of Linux on a bunch of boxes to setup solely for folding.

*Would like a GUI
*Something that I don't have to compile myself.
*Linux Newbie friendly.
*Not a huge a$$ .iso
*Runs F@H or Rosetta.
*Preferably not prone to problems.

 

[CupCak3]

ubuntu or fedora... those will probably be the easist to use. i haven't played w/ ubuntu yet but i have a folding fedora box.... its was a snap to install and stable as hell to boot

 

[keeleysam]

Go Fedora.

It is so much easier to setup for crunching as you actually have root access and can exit out of the GUI and everything to maximize CPU time.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Where is a good place to get a copy of Fedora distro?

 

[JWMiddleton]

Originally posted by: JWMiddleton
Where is a good place to get a copy of Fedora distro?

NVM I found it. I was surprised to see that Red Hat has the copywrite on it.

 

[Ayah]

Fedora is the freeish version of Red Hat. It's updated more often than Red Hat though.

 

[Ken g6]

Let me throw in another OS I've never used: Overclockix. It hasn't been updated for a year, but it's supposed to have BOINC and F@H preinstalled.

 

[RaySun2Be]

This one was mentioned in another thread. If I get some free time, I was going to try it out, Knoppix based.

http://overclockix.octeams.com/

[EDIT]
LOL, I guess I should have refreshed before posting. Ken beat me to it.

Even though the components are a year old, I don't know why you couldn't upgrade the DC clients.
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[Ayah]

Well I just ordered a bunch of Ubuntu CD's.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Ken_g6
Let me throw in another OS I've never used: Overclockix. It hasn't been updated for a year, but it's supposed to have BOINC and F@H preinstalled.

Year old versions of BOINC are not going to do you any good.

 

[Stalin PoG]

Does Damn Small Linux "DSL" work with BOINC?

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Stalin PoG
Does Damn Small Linux "DSL" work with BOINC?

You need a lot of RAM, as it will have to store BOINC, the science app, workunits, and results in memory.

 

[Ken g6]

I found a howto about using DSL for BOINC. But it's definitely not for beginners.

DSL can make a swapfile on your hard disk, so that helps the memory issue.

 

[RemyCanad]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Go Fedora.

It is so much easier to setup for crunching as you actually have root access and can exit out of the GUI and everything to maximize CPU time.

sudo -s will get you a terminal with root access....