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felipe51
December 28th, 2009, 05:45 AM
I've been considering to share this idea for a long time in a very nice way. Lets put it this way, other operating systems may have to use their valuable cpu time to analyze for virus scanning, or running utilities to defrag partitions or using registry tools. while they are idle or not.

Linux is free from that hassle, but your computer still need to consume energy although it could be idling (doing nothing, waiting for a task) usually that happen more than 80% of the computing time.

During the idle time, your computer could be helping for a cause. You have total control of how much you want your computer to process. You could be part of those who donate their idle computer time to create the largest volunteer computing grid benefiting humanity.

Just take a look at the official website:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp)

You may find a good project that may interest you. just take a look. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp)

There are projects like:

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2
Help Fight Childhood Cancer
Nutritious Rice for the World
Help Conquer Cancer
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2
FightAIDS@Home
Influenza Antiviral Drug Search
The Clean Energy Project
Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together



Linux is a great stable, reliable operating system, and I feel this could be of interest to the Linux community.

You could also download the software directly from the "Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager" looking for and installing boinc, boinc-manager and boinc-client.

or by terminal (for those more experienced):

sudo apt-get install boinc boinc-client boinc-manager

and following the clear instructions during the join process at the website.http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp)

ps: don't forget to join a good team like "Ubuntu Linux" which is in the top 100s. =D>

happy grid computing.
Best regards,
felipe51

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I'm running Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (karmic)
kernel:2.6.31-15
On: MacBook Pro, 4GB DDR3 RAM, iCore7 2.53GHz
, 500GB HD

plusnplus
December 28th, 2009, 05:58 AM
Hi felipe51,
Thanks for the info :)

felipe51
December 28th, 2009, 06:06 AM
Your feedback is really appreciated. ;-)

overdrank
December 28th, 2009, 06:49 AM
Moved to The Community Cafe

bashveank
December 28th, 2009, 08:56 AM
Yes, clearly any given Windows PC is using every last cpu cycle for "virus scanning." Nevertheless, this is a noble cause, for users of all operating systems.