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MikeToth1001
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Message 7382 - Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 19:18:55 UTC

I looked, and looked, but maybe I missed it somewhere. I know that there are client side apps that can support many different platforms, but am I mistaken that the server software is Linux only? From looking at some projects that show server hardware, it seems that it's all Linux/Unix that it's running under.

I'm curious, as I'm planning on downloading the source and running BOINC locally here on a few PCs so I can figure out the inner workings, and if one needs to be Linux, I have to install it. (I'm basically an old school hacker, so I like to poke around, and see how things work.) I'm not a cracker, or cheater. :-P

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Message 7384 - Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 20:34:46 UTC

See this post from Jord.
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Message 7644 - Posted: 20 Jan 2007, 23:19:18 UTC
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Yes they definitely are. There was once a still unfinished tutorial on how to get it working on Windows (was a MUCH bigger mess, needed cygwin to emulate Unix), but it was abandoned long ago. I think it was on the Wiki.

EDIT: by the way, it needs more than decent Linux knowledge too...
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Message 12083 - Posted: 15 Aug 2007, 5:28:17 UTC

BOINC could be compiled and running on the most Unixes. So far I know uses SETI Solaris for the BOINC serves. Also, I have successfull running a BOINC server at HP-UX.
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