BILD Boinc Italy Linux Distro

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#1 BILD Boinc Italy Linux Distro

Post by Alez »

A live Linux distro you run totally off a DVD or USB stick if you wish to try Boinc on Linux or simply want a Linux computer on Boinc for a few days.

http://www.boincitaly.org/supporto/boinc-distro.html

Boinc.Italy Linux Distro (BILD) is a GNU-Linux distro dedicated exclusively to distributed computing with BOINC platform. The distribution is based on Sabayon Linux with Xfce desktop environment and is bootable from a USB stick or DVD media, and provides a simple and light desktop environment for the sole purpose of performing only the BOINC client directly on the PC on which is started.

The architecture is exclusively for 64-bit processors (cannot run on 32-bit processors), but can run 32-bit applications if required as it has full support for 32bit libraries.

The customization of the distribution is very "destructive" in the sense that have been removed, as far as possible, many components which are not necessary for the purpose: player video/audio, messaging clients, graphics tools and more have been removed for reasons of spacer to creating ISO final. Very few things were kept:

- A web browser (Chromium, open source client for Google Chrome)
- A text editor
- The Filemanager (Thunar)
- Some tools for system monitoring and managing firewall.



To complete the purpose we inserted:

- The BOINC client manager + (Vers 7.2.42) (7.4.42 in the testing)

- Virtualized BoincTasks under Wine for those who need to control multiple PCs with just a few clicks

- Boinc-TUI, client/manager style ncurses for those who like minimalism

- GCC-4.9.2 full if some projects require access to certain parts of the compiler, not fully present by default in the basic version of the distribution.

- NVIDIA and AMD drivers (testing)

and a few other things.

- The installer has been removed, so you can not perform any installation on the hard disk. Operation is only by Live.
- No information is saved on the machine running the distribution Live-in unless the operator himself to do it forcedly.
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#2 Re: BILD Boinc Italy Linux Distro

Post by Silver »

Interesting, well spotted Alez.
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