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Folding@Home for OpenBSD 50

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."
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Folding@Home for OpenBSD

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  • by schapman ( 703722 ) on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:23PM (#7439376)
    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.
    • no way.. just do all the graphics on the graphics card (which is what its there for) and leave the CPU for block-munching
    • 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...
  • The End of FreeBSD (Score:2, Interesting)

    by 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
  • 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.

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