I almost guessed as much. But in my eyes it's much more "elegant" having BOINC as a package, rather than installing it yourself, so I'm not crazy about switching.
There's no such thing atm. The current version (7.10) has only been released two weeks ago, and the next one is hardly started. Unlike Debian, there's a new Ubuntu release every six months.
I almost guessed as much. But in my eyes it's much more "elegant" having BOINC as a package, rather than installing it yourself, so I'm not crazy about switching.
Understood. It's relatively easy to upgrade the package install, however. When you download the new client, install it into a temp directory. Take the boinc-client, boincmgr and boinc_cmd files from there and replace the old ones in /usr/bin from the ubuntu package (save copies of the old files just in case). Then remove the temp directory and it's contents.
Now your ubuntu package is "upgraded". The same menu items/icons run the new client, and the daemon setup runs the new client too.
After installing core client 5.10.21 on my Linux box both benchmarks and credits/hour on SETI and Einstein are lower than previously. Not that I care much as long as I can meet deadlines, but are the two facts correlated?
Tullio
After installing core client 5.10.21 on my Linux box both benchmarks and credits/hour on SETI and Einstein are lower than previously. Not that I care much as long as I can meet deadlines, but are the two facts correlated?
Tullio
I don't think there is any connection. I have never seen the core client consume any significant share of CPU time, even on vintage hardware.
Same here, although the oldest box I'm running BOINC on is a P3 Coppermine at 667 MHz, dunno if that qualifies as a vintage box. It's not very fast in any case ;-)
I almost guessed as much. But
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I almost guessed as much. But in my eyes it's much more "elegant" having BOINC as a package, rather than installing it yourself, so I'm not crazy about switching.
Maybe if you enable
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Maybe if you enable Prerelease in software sources for Kubuntu?
Debian has 5.10.27 deb package in the unstable release:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/boinc-client
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There's no such thing atm.
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There's no such thing atm. The current version (7.10) has only been released two weeks ago, and the next one is hardly started. Unlike Debian, there's a new Ubuntu release every six months.
RE: I almost guessed as
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Understood. It's relatively easy to upgrade the package install, however. When you download the new client, install it into a temp directory. Take the boinc-client, boincmgr and boinc_cmd files from there and replace the old ones in /usr/bin from the ubuntu package (save copies of the old files just in case). Then remove the temp directory and it's contents.
Now your ubuntu package is "upgraded". The same menu items/icons run the new client, and the daemon setup runs the new client too.
After installing core client
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After installing core client 5.10.21 on my Linux box both benchmarks and credits/hour on SETI and Einstein are lower than previously. Not that I care much as long as I can meet deadlines, but are the two facts correlated?
Tullio
RE: After installing core
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I don't think there is any connection. I have never seen the core client consume any significant share of CPU time, even on vintage hardware.
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Same here, although the
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Same here, although the oldest box I'm running BOINC on is a P3 Coppermine at 667 MHz, dunno if that qualifies as a vintage box. It's not very fast in any case ;-)