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Blue-Knight · Jul 29, 2015

m&m's said:
It would work for Boinc, not sure for F@H.

It worked last time I checked.

LOL!

Nordic · Jul 29, 2015

m&m's said:
It would work for Boinc, not sure for F@H. -> Getting BOINC setup without drives

I was using it specifically for boinc, and I don't think you had that thread up when I tried for the first time. I used ubuntu installed on a usb.

Blue-Knight · Jul 29, 2015

Well, I have a question: Isn't it possible to run BOINC without GUI!? There's no command line server available as in F@H?

That would save tons of resources by not requiring a desktop environment... LOL!

m&m's · Jul 29, 2015

james888 said:
I was using it specifically for boinc, and I don't think you had that thread up when I tried for the first time. I used ubuntu installed on a usb.

So Ubuntu runs on the USB key which kills it? The thread is to run Boinc without drives, even USB drives. The USB drive is only used to boot (and save once an hour if needed). The OS runs on the RAMDrive.

Blue-Knight said:
Well, I have a question: Isn't it possible to run BOINC without GUI!? There's no command line server available as in F@H?

That would save tons of resources by not requiring a desktop environment... LOL!

It wouldn't save tons or resources, light distros like Porteus uses less than ~160MB to run with a GUI, so why bother when most computers have 2GB+. If your cruncher is an old Pentium @350MHz with 32MB, you're better just turn it off since it's so slow that when it finishes a unit the deadline is already over. In other words, if your computer is strong enough to crunch, it's strong enough to run a GUI.

Blue-Knight · Jul 29, 2015

m&m's said:
It wouldn't save tons or resources, light distros like Porteus uses less than ~160MB to run with a GUI, so why bother when most computers have 2GB+.

I just thought it would be better to keep low on resources as much as possible, so more processing power is available to them. Sorry!

m&m's · Jul 29, 2015

Blue-Knight said:
I just thought it would be better to keep low on resources as much as possible, so more processing power is available to them. Sorry!

They would not really have more processing power. Once all the windows are opened, it doesn't really take any processing power, it only eats RAM. So as long as you have enough RAM, it shouldn't even take 0.1% (maybe taken by the graphical clock on the taskbar) of compute power. The time taken just to configure BOINC without a GUI would impact more the PPD than configuring it with a GUI.

Solaris17 · Jul 29, 2015

Blue-Knight said:
Hey, @james888! Thanks for sharing your past experiences.

In this case I would try to minimize flash drive workload as much as possible by doing the following:
>Install a minimal GNU/Linux system... The smaller the better.
>Put all the program data (folding@home, boinc) to memory (ram disk) and initialize from there.

That would minimize flash drive access... And only save the modified data to flash drive at regular intervals (every 1 hour or more).

And for best results... Try to get the entire system to boot from flash drive and keep running itself from RAM that way the flash drive work will be reduced to almost nothing.

Not sure if it would work. LOL!

that's a very good idea.

Furunomoe · Oct 13, 2015

Debian with Awesome. It's simply awesome.

Easy Rhino · Oct 13, 2015

Furunomoe said:
Debian with Awesome. It's simply awesome.

All I see is a wallpaper. Probably should include some open windows,etc so we can actually see the styling.

R-T-B · Oct 15, 2015

Easy Rhino said:
All I see is a wallpaper. Probably should include some open windows,etc so we can actually see the styling.

Awesome is so bare bones you are basically looking at what it is. It's a menu bar with a small window manager.

InhaleOblivion · Oct 19, 2015

My current desktop. Ubuntu 15.04 with Numix theme/icons

Desktop Screenshot from 2015-10-18 22:55:12.png

Desktop Screenshot from 2015-10-19 05:00:15.png

Liquid Cool · Oct 19, 2015

IO...excuse my ignorance, but is that an nvidia wallpaper? Since I'm now able to get the latest nvidia drivers through PPA in ubuntu+gnome and I bought a couple of eVGA video cards...I wouldn't mind one of these as a wallpaper. Do you have a link?

Best,

Liquid Cool

InhaleOblivion · Nov 5, 2015

Liquid Cool said:
IO...excuse my ignorance, but is that an nvidia wallpaper? Since I'm now able to get the latest nvidia drivers through PPA in ubuntu+gnome and I bought a couple of eVGA video cards...I wouldn't mind one of these as a wallpaper. Do you have a link?

Best,

Liquid Cool

Sorry for the delay. Been busy with life lately. Yes indeed it is. Here is a link to it and additional Nvidia wallpapers. http://hdwallpapersfast.info/18-nvidia-wallpapers/

Aquinus · Nov 6, 2015

Blue-Knight said:
Well, I have a question: Isn't it possible to run BOINC without GUI!? There's no command line server available as in F@H?

That would save tons of resources by not requiring a desktop environment... LOL!

I know that you posted this several months ago but, IIRC, the BOINC client has a linux daemon that can be started aside from the GUI interface and that you can use the GUI interface on another machine to connect to the headless instance of BOINC.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Stop_or_start_BOINC_daemon_after_boot

I'm with you on this one @Blue-Knight. It's not realistic to expect X to be available when BOINC could very well be running on a headless server.

R-T-B · Nov 9, 2015

Aquinus said:
I'm with you on this one @Blue-Knight. It's not realistic to expect X to be available when BOINC could very well be running on a headless server.

Technically, you can install X even on a headless server using a virtual frame buffer, but this is really tricky and shouldn't be necessary when the client could simply be made command line or daemon based.

librin.so.1 · Nov 9, 2015

R-T-B said:
[...]when the client could simply be made command line or daemon based.

correction: not could, is B)

m0nt3 · Jan 16, 2016

Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa KDE Edition

DarthBaggins · Jan 28, 2016

Rockin Mint Mate 17.3 Rosa

m0nt3 · Jan 28, 2016

DarthBaggins said:
Rockin Mint Mate 17.3 Rosa

What are you using to show the temps on your taskbar?

DarthBaggins · Jan 28, 2016

When you right-click and go to Add-To Panel there is an option for a Hardware Monitor (that's where I got my Network monitor, CPU Speed/Load, and Weather):

m0nt3 · Jan 28, 2016

I have never used mate so didnt know what all was available to it. Been a KDE user for many years.

DarthBaggins · Jan 28, 2016

There is alot available w/ the Mate desktop set, it's my favorite so far

hellrazor · Jan 28, 2016

Yep, can't wait for Wayland support.

m0nt3 · Jan 28, 2016

Have you tested wayland yet? What been your experfience? Sounds promising.

Been thinking about switching to a rolling release when AMDGPU becomes mainstream (assuming the R9 290 is being supported).

hellrazor · Jan 29, 2016

Well, Wayland itself seems to work just fine. It's just that Mate doesn't run on it, and Weston is a little bare.

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