Folding Forum

FYI - I found a volunteer running a system-wide ~amd64 Gentoo with 4.0 kernel and all that jazz. They had no issues running foldingathome with the reproduction settings I used a few posts back. Whatever the issue is, it seems to be specific to your system somehow. :/

Any suggestions would be great, axs. If I can't run it as a normal user, how is it supposed to be run as a daemon? Should I be starting it from .xinitrc or something like that? The way it's set up in Gentoo is that the daemon is started and stopped via openrc, specifically /etc/init.d/foldingathome...

I don't know if this matters or not, but I'm running Gentoo stable with a 3.14 series kernel and glibc-2.20, everything built with gcc-4.8.4 and linked with ld.bfd. I'm also using -march=corei7 (for my i7 processor) rather than -march=native, so my code (edit: i mean binaries, not code) might be a b...

OK so a bit of information: Gentoo's package does install folding@home to /opt/foldingathome , as generally /opt is the best location for self-contained prebuilt binaries. That directory and everything in it is installed with ownership of foldingathome:nogroup and 755 permissions (ie world executabl...

And incidentally, I believe this is a 'supported' install method, according to special permissions issued to the Gentoo project by Pande: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=22524&p=242433&hilit=gentoo+folding#p242020 The content of that thread gives us permission to make folding@home available in Gen...

Thank you for the special permission!! The Gentoo Linux community sincerely appreciates this.

The EULA does preclude installing the v7 Folding@home client via Gentoo's portage package manager with out written permission. If someone were to create such a package for portage and submit it to us I believe permission would likely be granted. Excellent. Please accept the following ebuild (packag...

The license that we have with v6 (which is an FAH license) doesn't match this, and our legal group is _very_ strict on ensuring license compliance with upstreams... The license we have has (c) 2001-2004 at the top, and it states "You may only use unmodified versions of Folding@home obtained thr...

6 months, any word? As it is seeming to be too cumbersome for Gentoo Linux to obtain written permission to include a "third party install script" and therefore include FAH newer than version 6 in its repositories, maybe there would be a way for Gentoo Developers to contribute the ebuild (a...

(Originally posted at the end of a 9-month old thread elsewhere) FAH doesn't officially support gentoo. V7 has two Linux installers, one for Debian / Mint / Ubuntu and the other for RedHat / CentOS / Fedora. There may be knowledgable Linux folks who will figure out how to tweak one of those installe...