SETI on Mandrake 9.1

[movinslow]

Hi,

I've been running SETI on Windows for almost a year. I'd like to start using Linux exclusively and continue to run SETI.

In Windows, I ran the command-line version with SETI Driver. I'd like to use a similar setup in Linux. I've downloaded the "i686-pc-linux-gnu" command-line from SETI. Is there something like SETI Driver that is good? I'd like it to cache the wu's and be able to transmit when I want, not as each wu is completed. I'm on dialup, can't be tying up the phoneline all the time.

I'm using KDE 3.1, but if there's something that's not window-manager dependent, that would be nice.

Thanks

 

[Hallis]

Interesting, Id also like to know if anybody else knows about this. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and Community TSC on a machine here at work but we're on a LAN connection so no need to cache WU's,, which TSC does automatically but ive been wondering about SETI.

*edit* unfortunately no broadband is available where i live..

 

[Smoke]

You can use one of the TeAm SetiQueues.

Though this is not caching WUs on your own PC, it has the same effect. 😉

 

[Ken g6]

The best equivalent cacher I know of for Linux is JSetiDoor, a Java program.

 

[movinslow]

The bad thing about team setiqueue is that I would have to connect each time I wanted another WU, right? I was trying to avoid that.

I'll give JSetiDoor a try.

 

[soni]

Or try some of these tools :
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links_addons.html#links_unix

Plenty of caching programs woth trying out 😀

 

[Polo]

You could try this one. 🙂

Hope this helps. 😉

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: movinslow
The bad thing about team setiqueue is that I would have to connect each time I wanted another WU, right? I was trying to avoid that.

I'll give JSetiDoor a try.

Yes, using a TeAm Queue (including Mucman's JSetiDoor) would be a "do one / get one" scenario.

If you want to install your own personal JSetiDoor, I'd suggest you contact Mucman if you need any help. 😉

Edit: Forgot to ask if you were on-line 24/7? If you were, then having your own caching program would really not be of much help. I guess if your ISP went down for more than a short while, a cache would be helpful. Just thinking out loud. 😉

 

[movinslow]

Thanks soni. I had run across that list but didn't know where to start. I thought I could ask if anyone had experience/recommendations.

Polo, your link looks pretty good. I hope it's easy to setup. Thanks 🙂

Smokeball, I didn't realize JSetiDoor worked as an online queue. I'm not online 24/7, so that wouldn't work. Looking at http://members.lycos.co.uk/chrisdavis/seti/jsd/ made the setup process seem a little complex anyway.

Thanks all!
If anyone else has comments, feel free to post!