I'm a newbie on the Linux OS. I installed BOINC (I think) but it runs on the terminal... (like DOS) is this normal or you can run it on a window like on Windows??? And how do you chmod +x ??

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> I'm a newbie on the Linux OS.

Welcome to the world of the free. :)

> I installed BOINC (I think) but it runs on the terminal... (like DOS) is this
> normal

Errm...sort of. Depending on which version you have, it's either a command line app or a daemon and a gui manager.

For the command line app or daemon, I like to run it in the background. In fact, I load it from the init scripts so it truly runs as a daemon (or service). I also re-direct any output to a log file. You can do that by typing the following while in the boinc directory:

./boinc >>/var/log/boinc.log 2&>1 &

> or you can run it on a window like on Windows???

You can do the above from either the console or from one of the X terminal apps like konsole or xterm. If you have boincmgr, that runs as a gui app in X and allows you to monitor and control the daemon.

> And how do you chmod +x ??

Well, if the app is running, you or someone must have done it. ;) You can get full details of the use of chmod by typing <B>man chmod</B> at the command prompt. The same applies to most of the command line commands.

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Be lucky

Neil

This may help you and teach you how to optimize boinc for your system. It helped me! Welcome to Linux.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/index.htm

I have Mandrakelinux... and it's not the "DOS" version, and whats gnu, isnt that little cow on the taskbar ?

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> I have Mandrakelinux... and it's not the "DOS" version, and whats gnu, isnt
> that little cow on the taskbar ?
>

GNU is short for GNU's not Unix, it's the collection of free software. Linux is the kernel itself but GNU makes up the rest of the system, hence it's often referred to as GNU/Linux. www.gnu.org has loads more details.

> GNU is short for GNU's not Unix,

You forgot to point out that GNU is recursive too ...

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