I visited the link you provided. It is not obvious to me where the download link is for this new 7.82 version of BOINC. Do you think it fixes the problem I detailed in the BOINC 7.8.0 for Linux thread?

I'll have to search on just what stretch means. I have no clue. I am a newcomer to linux.

I'll have to search on just what stretch means. I have no clue. I am a newcomer to linux.

Stretch is the current version of Debian (also known as Debian 9). To find out what version you are using in a terminal window type "uname -a" (without the quotes) and it should say what kernel and OS version it is.

Update: I have just played around with the network activity and it seems to behave. Suspend Network works correctly and making it always available also seems to work, The Activity Menu in Advanced mode shows the radio buttons correctly.

keith@Darksider:~$ uname -a
Linux Darksider 4.10.0-33-generic #37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 14:07:24 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
keith@Darksider:~$

Thanks, looks like I need to move up to 7.8.2. This is my output:

keith@Darksider:~$ uname -a
Linux Darksider 4.10.0-33-generic #37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 11 14:07:24 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
keith@Darksider:~$

I don't see my status radio buttons ever update the change after making one. Might it be a problem with video driver or Desktop UI?

I am running the repository video driver 375.66 and the standard Ubuntu desktop.

The BOINC client v7.8.3 is available for testing on Linux

For Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc-manager

For Fedora/RedHat/CentOS

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enable updates-testing
sudo dnf install boinc-manager

Test reports can be sent to the alpha testing project and bugs can be reported to the Fedora or Debian bug trackers respectively.

Regards,

Laurence

kind of :)

For the regular user of Debian-derived distros, "sudo apt-get install boinc" is the way to go. No extras.

boinc-manager is the GUI for controlling local or remote clients.
boinc-client is the client with the boinccmd command line.

to install both in one go there is the aforementioned third package (consisting only of dependencies to boinc-manager and boinc-client) with the name "boinc".

Both Debian and Ubuntu have BOINC packages shipping as regular parts of their distribution since version 5.2.15 in March 2006. This is some freaking 12 years, see http://snapshot.debian.org/package/boinc/. Mint also takes it from there. The PPA (personal package archive) of Gianfranco is a neat extra service for those aiming at running the very latest very early but do not run the latest version of the distribution (where does this guy get all the energy from? Ubuntu Artful is on 7.8.3,
Zesty still on 7.6.33, but later backports to the earlier versions of Ubuntu are to be expected). The same Gianfranco (and sometimes also I) do for the backports.debian.org. It is all in perfect shape as seen on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/boinc. As TarotApprentice had pointed out, this needs an extra flag to apt-get like -t stretch-backports to be
installed instead of the sufficiently recent of Debian stable.

The number of Debian installations are mostly invariant at https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc. The Ubuntu PopCon is a bit more tedious to read - 45204 installations are reported from those who installed the popularity-contest package. No idea about the other Debian derivatives.

OpenSuSE has https://software.opensuse.org/package/boinc-client but is still at 7.2.42.
For arch I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC and https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=boinc but they are still at 7.6.33. I have no contact to either of those maintainers but would only be worried for the also RPM-based SuSE community.

I very much agree that a distribution-agnostic self-extracting static version makes perfect sense until those distributions are also covered. However, I would rather work on finding volunteer packagers for those platforms than to work on the .sea for those who do not want to compile the very latest versions themselves. archlinux likely only needs a friendly email informing the maintainers that the 7.8.3 can now be trusted.

Cheers,

Steffen