Hi Jon, > Debian 7.3 (stable) uses glibc v2.13, Debian Jessie (testing) uses v2.17, > and Debian Sid (unstable) uses v2.18 so it looks like they've changed their > minds. However, at present, the only way to run the current BOINC client > on the current Debian version is to use either the "testing" or "unstable" > sources.
If I got this right, then you are saying that the binaries provided for Linux by Berkeley are not usable for the stable Debian release, right? Hm. I had accepted the message from past postings to some BOINC mailing list that Debian's BOINC packages we are providing is not usable for everyone, and my latest upload to backports.debian.org is (admittedly) a while ago. But from my side I would not mind if the Berkeley developers left the support for Debian stable to the Debian people - just, I personally do not run stable and it is tedious for me to test it all, so I am not too keen on frequent updates. > That, or download and compile your own BOINC client. I don't > think most end users can or are willing to do that. I don't care too much > if the latest BOINC version doesn't work since I usually wait until a few > others identify all the issues with the current version so I can decide > whether to upgrade. That is, unless BOINC keeps nagging me to use a version > that I know won't run every single time I launch the BOINC manager. That > gets to be really annoying.) Hm. This is exactly the spirit that backports.debian.org should help everyone with. > Yeah, I know Debian isn't as popular as it once was. In fact, since only > RHEL, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu are supported by nVidia and AMD's GPU toolkits, > why not switch the official BOINC server VM's (and instruction on the wiki > pages) to one of those? Then the same VM image can be used to build and > test client apps as well as run the server. The NVidia packages shipping with Debian work nicely. Concerning support, with Valve's StreamOS distribution deriving directly from Debian, I have some good confidence that a continued bet on Debian is a good one. > I'd be happy to help with Same here. Cheers, Steffen _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
