Fwd: Re: [boinc_dev] Official Debian repositories and BOINC

[Steffen Moeller]

Dear Frank,

please amend the text and forward it to David,

Dear David,

we Debian/Ubuntu maintainers thank you for your initiative. We have indeed 
also thought about a better integration of your upstream web site with our 
work and much appreciate your kind offer.

On the download page at the currently only a single big "button" awaits us. 
Next to that it could read, reusing some text of yours:

<h2>BOINC is readily integrated with many Linux Distributions</h2>
For most users of the here listed Linux Distributions, our client is not 
required to be installed separatedly. This has extra benefits
<ul>
<li>separate user account for BOINC
<li>automated start at reboot
<li>regular updates together with operating system software
<li>for developers: instant access to complete build environment and automated 
build process
<li>more concise error reports
</ul>

As user of any of the following Linux distributions please follow these 
distribution-specific instructions:

<dl>
<tt>Debian</tt>
<td>Distribution as part of the distribution since Debian Etch. Users of 
earlier version should refer to Debian Backports (backports.org). The 
packages are:
<ul>
<li>boinc-client
<li>boinc-manager
</ul>
The client is started right upon the package's installation. Start 
<code>boincmgr</code> to configure the assignment to projects. To stop the 
client run <code>/etc/init.d/boinc stop</code>. Feel free to read through 
http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-boinc to learn more about the develoment of the 
package.
</td>
<tt>Ubuntu</tt>
</td>...?...
The Ubuntu packages share the code with Debian, also use boincmgr to configure 
the running client.
</td>
</dl>

With kind regards in the name of the Debian BOINC contributors

Frank Thomas and Steffen Moeller



On Monday 12 March 2007 12:51:16 Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm forwarding an email David Anderson posted to the boinc_dev mailing
> list. Is anyone interested to write the instructions for Debian/Ubuntu
> David asked for? I'll do it if noone else wants to but my Debian/BOINC
> backlog is pretty big so I don't know when I'll get round to do it.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Official Debian repositories and BOINC
> Date: Monday 12 March 2007 03:38
> From: David Anderson <davea at ssl.berkeley.edu>
> To:
> Cc: "Frank S. Thomas" <frank at thomas-alfeld.de>, boinc_dev at ssl.berkeley.edu
>
> Currently, if a Linux user downloads BOINC from our web site,
> they get the Manager and core client,
> but not nice stuff like startup-on-boot or running as a separate user;
> some of the distro-specific packages do these things.
>
> I'd like to change our download page to say
> "if you're running Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu etc.,
> follow these directions instead".
> I haven't gotten around to it; if anyone gives me
> specific instructions for their distro, I'll add the text.
>
> -- David
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Dr. Steffen Möller
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