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I used a walkthrough that Jose had posted on his web pages to help me to install BOINC on a Mandriva install I was running . His helpful guide worked and I posted a thank you ,
On April 29, 2008 10:57:45 am you wrote:
> Thank you very much for your walkthrough . I'm just starting
> out with linux and found your step by step guide easy to follow . It
> took me quite a while , it would have been a lot quicker if I had
> realised that you could COPY and PASTE the command line instructions ,
> but I got there in the end . So once again many thanks .
Jose took the time to reply to my thank you and even took the time to give me some extra tips on using linux . Now I think that is really really nice and one of the reasons that I am starting to enjoy using linux as my main os .
To hear that it worked is a real compliment, thanks!
As you are starting-out, you may have already heard or read some of these
suggestions and tips, if not, I hope the extra tips help as well.
You might find that the linux version of boinc climbs rapidly in credit if
you run it at 100% with nice turned-on as I've described since it fills in
all the little empty spots of CPU wasted time with boinc work but also
keeping "your" stuff as priority. I don't think boinc on Windows has a
nice feature so you are sort of stuck running only during true idle time
or running 100% but impeding the speed of programs you truly would want to
have priority on (many windows machines appear to have lower credits on
average, so I believe most are running on idle-time only).
If you need to know more about each command-line command, you can look at
the manuals for many of them, use the up/down arrows to go up/down and
press q to quit, for example:
man ls
As a tip, if you are running a desktop machine, you won't need to run a
high MSEC level and if you are learning it sort of creates a bit of a
barrier to your learning as well. on the other hand, if you have
aspirations to later run a server, the MSEC pointers I've mentioned will
help you look for clues you need for locking-up your machine tight yet
keeping it useful. An RPM install would definitely be quicker, but doing
it manually like described allows you to control many aspects such as
running as a boinc user etc, etc, etc. (for the control geeks)
As a tip, if you are using BASH (which is the default command-line shell
for Mandriva (think of BASH as Linux's version of Window's DOS
command-line shell)) you may find it useful that if you type the TAB
button, the command-line will attempt to auto-complete the rest of the
command, or possibly the options, for example:
ls is too short to bother doing a TAB, but the option is workable,
ls /e <-do a TAB and it should complete the line as /etc/
then you can continue...
ls /etc/samb <-do a TAB and it should complete to /etc/samba/
I am glad you found it useful.
Jose
Just remember this guy put all that effort into producing and publishing his guide for FREE and he took the time to answer me also . Now thats the sort of world I want to live in . One where folk try to help each other out .
On April 29, 2008 10:57:45 am you wrote:
> Thank you very much for your walkthrough . I'm just starting
> out with linux and found your step by step guide easy to follow . It
> took me quite a while , it would have been a lot quicker if I had
> realised that you could COPY and PASTE the command line instructions ,
> but I got there in the end . So once again many thanks .
Jose took the time to reply to my thank you and even took the time to give me some extra tips on using linux . Now I think that is really really nice and one of the reasons that I am starting to enjoy using linux as my main os .
To hear that it worked is a real compliment, thanks!
As you are starting-out, you may have already heard or read some of these
suggestions and tips, if not, I hope the extra tips help as well.
You might find that the linux version of boinc climbs rapidly in credit if
you run it at 100% with nice turned-on as I've described since it fills in
all the little empty spots of CPU wasted time with boinc work but also
keeping "your" stuff as priority. I don't think boinc on Windows has a
nice feature so you are sort of stuck running only during true idle time
or running 100% but impeding the speed of programs you truly would want to
have priority on (many windows machines appear to have lower credits on
average, so I believe most are running on idle-time only).
If you need to know more about each command-line command, you can look at
the manuals for many of them, use the up/down arrows to go up/down and
press q to quit, for example:
man ls
As a tip, if you are running a desktop machine, you won't need to run a
high MSEC level and if you are learning it sort of creates a bit of a
barrier to your learning as well. on the other hand, if you have
aspirations to later run a server, the MSEC pointers I've mentioned will
help you look for clues you need for locking-up your machine tight yet
keeping it useful. An RPM install would definitely be quicker, but doing
it manually like described allows you to control many aspects such as
running as a boinc user etc, etc, etc. (for the control geeks)
As a tip, if you are using BASH (which is the default command-line shell
for Mandriva (think of BASH as Linux's version of Window's DOS
command-line shell)) you may find it useful that if you type the TAB
button, the command-line will attempt to auto-complete the rest of the
command, or possibly the options, for example:
ls is too short to bother doing a TAB, but the option is workable,
ls /e <-do a TAB and it should complete the line as /etc/
then you can continue...
ls /etc/samb <-do a TAB and it should complete to /etc/samba/
I am glad you found it useful.
Jose
Just remember this guy put all that effort into producing and publishing his guide for FREE and he took the time to answer me also . Now thats the sort of world I want to live in . One where folk try to help each other out .
