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Altruism is one thing that I'd like to believe characterizes all Linux users out there. This trait can be manifested in a lot of different ways, but when we're talking about computers, the most characteristic and practical way is donating computational resources for a good cause. Here's is a quick guide on how to do exactly that.
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Good article, but for most, would it not be easier to instal 'boinc' or 'boinc-manager' from the distro's package manager?
Cheers,
Chris.
It may be worthwhile to mention that the exact version of the BOINC run does not really matter. Those clients install the scientific software themselves and that is always the very latest one and is updated automatically. Hence, even running an older Linux distribution, which consequently is shipping an older version of the BOINC client, the contribution would just as good and as fast as with a newer one.