Better *BSD support?
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Better *BSD support?
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 eco  Send message Joined: 16 Dec 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 14,844,384 RAC: 204 
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Hi! I have been participating in the project for some time now and one thing that surprised me for almost as long time is that the support for *BSD (particularly FreeBSD and OpenBSD) seems to always (?) have been low priority? How come? From my experience the BSD's has always been one of the first hand choices in scientific environments and IT intensive environments and many of us come from either or both fields. Recently I tried again to run boinc on the latest current stable FreeBSD and had to google and read blogs etc and in the end it seemed I had to trick he client (server rather it seems) into "behaving" like a Linux client (maybe because the server evaluates the clients uname string or similar for some reason?), why? it shouldnt be difficult to get at least the major distros/OS's to ship binary versions? Dragonfly seems really straight forward and just works out of the box (with very good performance too and as expected) but I am sure more people would participate if the support for the main *BSD's was better (at least FreeBSD and OpenBSD) but if it was easier to use the ports tree and "just install" boinc (and not have to edit make files etc) that would probably also make a significant difference! Also most of the websites linked to (even from the official SETI pages) are dead links or obsolete information, at least this information should be accurate and up to date. What are your experiences from running boinc/seti at other platforms than Linux? How can we help each other and improve the projects support for the platforms that we use? -- http://seti.compartment.se/ -- ID: 1992195 ·  |
Ian&Steve C.  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4267 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640 
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Low priority likely because of a very low number of users in that environment. Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours  
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Beach Cam Live ! Send message Joined: 19 Jul 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 57,726,577 RAC: 77
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I would love to be able to run setiathome on my OpernBSD boxes like we did when SETI was standalone before Boinc. A package would be sweet. I have more BSD boxes idle than windows. Tim ID: 1992534 · |
rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 
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Given the low user base one will either have to pursued a developer to produce the apps, or compile them one's self. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1992550 · |
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