I'm looking at building a linux box to run Rosetta, but since this is my first linux build I have a question: Fedora 9 has an x86-64 version that is compatible with the Core2 processors, but what version of BOINC do I need to get? The BOINC website mentions 64-bit linux versions, but also mentions that several other steps are required if the project supplies only 32-bit WUs (which Rosetta does, correct?) - so how involved are those steps? Is anybody else running Fedora 9 for Rosetta? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to linux, so please be gentle...

Get Ubuntu...
I had it with BOINC installed with 64-bit.
It was easy... Ubuntu is the most user friendly Linux-based OS

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I'm looking at building a linux box to run Rosetta, but since this is my first linux build I have a question: Fedora 9 has an x86-64 version that is compatible with the Core2 processors, but what version of BOINC do I need to get? The BOINC website mentions 64-bit linux versions, but also mentions that several other steps are required if the project supplies only 32-bit WUs (which Rosetta does, correct?) - so how involved are those steps? Is anybody else running Fedora 9 for Rosetta? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to linux, so please be gentle...

BOINC will download the 32-bit rosetta automatically - no manual steps needed (there used to be manual steps).

If the machine is just going to be crunching then you might want to consider kubuntu - it's a cut down version of ubuntu so it uses less resources.

HTH
Danny

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Fedora has the boinc-client and boinc-manager RPM packages included with the distribution. You just need to install them after installing the OS. As root, run this:
yum install boinc-manager boinc-client

If the machine is just going to be crunching then you might want to consider kubuntu - it's a cut down version of ubuntu so it uses less resources.

HTH
Danny

Actually, the difference between Kubuntu and Ubuntu is that the first uses the KDE desktop environment (kde.org) while the latter uses GNOME (gnome.org). KDE is not generally considered to be a particularly light desktop. Something like XFCE (xfce.org) would use a lot less resources.

If you have a Quad, one thing that would help with Rosetta@home would be overclocking it a bit. Recent Penryn cores run pretty cool and overclock easily. My Mac Pro had 2x quads and I've overclocked them from 2.8ghz to 3.129ghz without problem. The fans aren't even spinner faster.

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