Folding@Home for OpenBSD

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."

Re:Yawn,

[tedu]

kinda funny that you ask for one giant port that includes everything you might want, and then go on to say feature creep kills all software.

folding vs SETI

[schapman]

i would run FOLDING@Home but SETI looks so much better.. give me flashy lights and cool animations, and i'll run FOLDING in a second.

Re:folding vs SETI

[schapman]

no way.. just do all the graphics on the graphics card (which is what its there for) and leave the CPU for block-munching

Re:folding vs SETI

[tmp_user]

Hmm, waste my unused cycles on background noise for seti@home or contribute some information that has a far greater chance of being useful to folding@home... seti has the pretty decorations so I suppose I'll forego logic (or not resort to binary emulation...) and pass on FAH. Also, seti is a command line app on unices...

Re:Well Whatever

[Quill_28]

I thought you knew, one should always up your threshold to 1 in the BSD forum, and never post anonymous if you want someone to read it.

The End of FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

The End of FreeBSD
[ed. note: in the following text, former FreeBSD developer Mike Smith gives his reasons for abandoning FreeBSD]

When I stood for election to the FreeBSD core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.

Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the FreeBSD project, I see the same problem; a few new

What it is that is being "folded"

[puff the barbarian]

For those of you that do not know, what is being studied is how protein molecules "fold" themselves before doing useful work. Improper folding often accompanies diseases, so studying why things go wrong can help toward curing diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's.