I installed the FreeBSD client prepared by crunch3r. It runs, and I attached to the project. But when I try to ask for work, I get "06-May-2008 13:06:58 [Milkyway@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd' not found"

Any clues? Obviously the server expects another identification string.

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I went in with a blunt axe :p

Finally got it to work, but in an unorthodox way. I opened the crunch3r Boinc client in a binary editor and replaced the platform identification string i386-portbld-freebsd by i386-unknown-freebsd. And yes, it now downloads and runs. But the WU take 2 minutes longer than in Windows 32-bit. 12 minutes as opposed to 10. Bummer.

Am I missing something? According to http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=297&nowrap=true#3388 the FreeBSD version would be by far the fastest. But it appears to be the slowest. Is there an unofficial optimized FreeBSD application?


EDIT: I must add this for completeness, as it may influence performance:
- I run DesktopBSD, and not FreeBSD. DesktopBSD is basically FreeBSD with the KDE GUI added to it (similar to Kubuntu)
- I run the OS in a VMWare virtual machine

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Hmm, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the response. :p

Meanwhile I wanted to repeat the exercise with 64-bit FreeBSD. But I can't find a 64-bit FreeBSD Boinc client anywhere. Which makes me wonder. Since the project's applications page shows "FreeBSD running on amd64 CPU", who tested this version, and how?

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Hmm, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the response

I guess there's not many people here who run FreeBSD (I don't either).

Have you looked at this page? There's quite a few OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD BOINC clients listed there.

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Hmm, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the response

I guess there's not many people here who run FreeBSD (I don't either).

Have you looked at this page? There's quite a few OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD BOINC clients listed there.

Yes, I looked there. i386 FreeBSD clients enough, but no amd64. OpenBSD and NetBSD binaries are afaik not compatible with FreeBSD.

The only thing I did find was a package from FreeBSD. That lets you compile your own Boinc client. I tried that. Through package dependencies it also downloaded some widget libraries it had to compile. Just when I thought it might actually work... compiler errors.

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