BOINC.Italy Linux Distro BILD_amd64_20160925.iso released!steemCreated with Sketch.

in #science8 years ago (edited)

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I was trying to create/find the "perfect linux distro" for using BOINC on a computer. I found BOINCpe, dotsch_ux, looked at slackware, bodhi, ubuntu 14 and 16, porteus... all to no avail. There just wasn't anything that would run Nvidia drivers out of the box on my 750ti. If you've ever tried this, I don't have to explain what a nightmare it is...

Introducing an AWESOME project: BILD.

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

"BILD (BOINC.Italy Linux Distro) is a GNU-Linux distribution based on Sabayon Linux with Xfce graphical environment dedicated exclusively to the BOINC distributed computing platform, folding@home and GIMPS.
BILD runs exclusively in Live mode.
It includes only the applications needed to run the clients of calculation and some system management tools."

It's a little quirky (not the smoothest OS ever, and i don't speak Italian... but it's doable), but for a one-click solution, we couldn't ask for more... and being Gentoo-based, there are many excited developers in the Gridcoin community working hard on our own versions. Hoping to add a Gridcoin wallet, and add a choice for language at boot among other things!

Follow me for updates!

Thanks for reading. :)

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A Gridcoin version would be awesome! I would like a really small memory footprint of a Linux distro.

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