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Manjaro 5.15 LTS and BOINC

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

Manjaro and BOINC have had a troubled relationship over the years. Perhaps you read my previous post on this matter. The machine I’m using today is an HP EliteDesk G2.

You will notice I’m using the built in Intel graphics so we won’t have any NVIDIA issues to deal with. Later I may stick in a NVIDIA NVS 310 Quadro and experiment with the Hybrid driver. It’s an interesting concept, but a diversion for this conversation.

Life is Good

After years and waves of people bitching, Manjaro has finally gotten serious about fixing boinc support.

Just install BOINC Manager from Add Remove Software
Add yourself to the BOINC group

In my previous post there was much finding of files and performing chmod on them to get rid of issues. Now, the only thing you have to do is add yourself to the group. Hopefully the package maintainer will add this post install step to the packaging.

enable the boinc client service

After you enable the service, simply reboot.

Boinc after reboot

Manjaro and BOINC Summary

As you can see, real progress has been made in getting Manajor to properly handle BOINC. Other than having to enable the service and add yourself to the group, it almost “just works.” Both of these issues should be fixable by the package maintainer.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.