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Folding@Home for OpenBSD

Posted by timothy on from the fold-away dept.

schnarff writes "Users of OpenBSD have been asking the Folding@Home team for a port of their distributed computing client since at least May of 2002; I've helped out by figuring out how to run F@H under Linux emulation (mirror of instructions). Note that this procedure should work for NetBSD as well with some minor modifications."

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  1. Re:Yawn, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm huge OpenBSD as anyone, works great on server and router, but for the desktop? Really? It's a great OS, but I say just use NetBSD or FreeBSD for your desktop.

    BSD Gear

  2. Re:Yawn, by grub · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I run OpenBSD on my desktop at work and whatever servers I need to set up (other than smp machines which get FreeBSD) Off the top of my head here's nothing I can think of that I'm lacking.

    It may take a little digging around but usually you can get what you want. Certainly there isn't the hand-holding aspect of other OSs (unless you count "RTFM! RTFFAQ!" as hand-holding. :)

    Oh wait.. I just thought of one thing. off to misc@openbsd.org..

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