Come On then

[AMD-USR_JL]

It's an OC'd 4800 at 2.57Ghz. There's some screens of FC5 on a PS3 here, just scroll down a little bit.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35818
Yea it's a ppc

[drezha]

Oh...linux on a PS3....

I caught the bug a while back and went around trying to install linux/open source frimware to whatever I could lay my hands on. Though (Luckily maybe?) I only found my iRiver MP3 player and installed Rockbox on it.

I fancy trying to install Linux on a PS2 now. I know it can be done. Might not be a great performer but to say I've done it...just have to borrow my housemates PS2 lol

[drezha]

Appears the Core Duo isn't as good as I thought it was.

At least not on RC-72...
My first unit on my 3500+ went through at 7,850,544 keys/s. And my Core Duo is equalling about 8,000,000 keys/s. Would the fact my 3500+ is running linux a difference?

[AMD-USR_JL]

I had no luck. Just like everytime i try to install linux on anything the GUI will not display. I see the screen flash with 16:9 borders like it's loading a GUI for one second, but then it goes back to command line. It might just be my monitor so i'll try using my T.V. tomorrow by HDMI. Wish me luck.

[Brucifer]

For the festive season, I've switched to RC-72. And after a brief sojurn crunching for TPR on the project, I got lonely (me being the only member) and moved back to AMD users...

Heck, sounds like a plan. I'll toss a few towards rc5 for the holidays too. Would be nice to see a few people banging something besides boinc.

[drezha]

I had no luck. Just like everytime i try to install linux on anything the GUI will not display. I see the screen flash with 16:9 borders like it's loading a GUI for one second, but then it goes back to command line. It might just be my monitor so i'll try using my T.V. tomorrow by HDMI. Wish me luck.

No luck on the linux on the PS3? Or no luck on linux whatsoever?

Anyhow, whats the proper way of closing it in linux? Ctrl+C? RUns in a terminal so I assume Ctrl+C might work.

[gatekeeper53]

It's an OC'd 4800 at 2.57Ghz. There's some screens of FC5 on a PS3 here, just scroll down a little bit.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35818
Yea it's a ppc

With my new cooler I have got my 4800 crunching Pi Segment at 2.766GHz but the cooler wasn't cheap.

[Brucifer]

No luck on the linux on the PS3? Or no luck on linux whatsoever?

Anyhow, whats the proper way of closing it in linux? Ctrl+C? RUns in a terminal so I assume Ctrl+C might work.

Yes, Ctrl-C is the way to shut it down.

In regards to most crunching, a terminal window works for everything. No need to install the GUI on a cruncher. About the only reason to have the gui would be if you are using the system for web browsing or some other application the really needs a graphical interface. In the crunching world, you would probably need the gui to install and set up wine so you could run windows programs which would theoretically give you better speed such as using jjsieve for rieselsieve or psp sieving if not using the linux prothsieve client. On the rare occasions that I do run boinc, I use the linux client and set boinc up in different directories for different projects and don't use the windows method of attaching to multiple projects and letting the scheduler determine what gets what.

My main reason for running linux is that windows costs too much and I couldn't afford to buy windows for each cruncher. I also don't have all my systems hooked up to KVM's. I use ssh or telnet to get into those boxes.

My preferred linux for crunchers is slackware and I do a minimal install to save disk space. I collect old/used smaller sized HD's. Helps keep the costs down on farming.

[Brucifer]

Appears the Core Duo isn't as good as I thought it was.

At least not on RC-72...
My first unit on my 3500+ went through at 7,850,544 keys/s. And my Core Duo is equalling about 8,000,000 keys/s. Would the fact my 3500+ is running linux a difference?

I wouldn't think so. The two clients move along pretty much together. If running linux, you should go to a 64-bit version, like opensuse-64. Then you could run the native 64-bit dnetc linux client which will give you a bit of a gain on speed over the 32-bit linux and windows client. Last I knew they hadn't completed a 64-bit windows client yet. I use Suse-64 on my dual core crunchers.

[drezha]

I'm interested in running a 64 bit version of Ubuntu (yes I need the GUI, it is my main rig so I use for web browsing and work)

But because it's my main rig, I fear this is where it might let me down. I don't think everything has moved over to 64 bit. Therefore more hard work and at the minute, I just don't have the time to. I might try at a later date (unfortunatly, my main rig is staying at Uni while I'm going home so I cant try when I DO have the time...)

Suse I've tried and I've not really liked. Time and time again I've tried other distro's and nothing's beat Ubuntu.In fact the best version of that was 6.06 IMHO but running 6.10 at the minute and while it's sorted some niggles, it's introduced some others. (Like the CPU usage when watching films etc has dropped) whereas when I restart, I have to make sure my USB keyboard/mouse combo aren't plugged in because it stops USB working (but that might be my kernel...AFAIK I upgraded my kernel...)