Folding Forum

Hi

Seems installing on Debian buster doesn't work - dependency issues. A friend tried it on Fedora. It installed, but crashed a lot. On ARM, there's nothing, as far as I can see (perhaps unless you run Android, which isn't very useful for anything else but handhelds, where running f@h isn't useful at all, since it drains the battery).

So - can you please open the source so that we can get true, working releases? I have read your arguments on why not to open the source, and they don't make sense at all. Just write the code well, and it won't be exploited.

roy

There are supported Linux distros for the F@h client. For those and ones that are not supported there are people here who can provide help on getting the client installed and working.

As for opening the source, parts already are open source and available on GitHub and elsewhere. Other parts are not going to change on that front. In any case, the changes have to usable on not just Linux, but also on Windows and OS X.

As for your argument that it won't be exploited, there have been too many examples in distributed computing where exactly that has happened. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

If it really is impossible to opensource parts of the code, would it be possible to opensource a working version and just include a portable BLOB for x86/64 and relevant ARM, including Raspberry pi GPU support? That could be a good way to get the best of two worlds, IMHO

I'm running a mix Buster/Sid (the Devuan related ones... I wanted to post a link but, yeah, the antispam got me)
and works for me, currently running on CPU. Just ordered a couple of GPUs

but... I can't get FAHcontrol installed, it depends on python-gnome2 which is not available since several Debian releases... who's on the topic?

Hi,

I got annoyed with this after several failed attempts so I just did this:

dpkg --ignore-depends=python-gnome2 -i fahcontrol_7.5.1-1_all.deb

and the installation appeared to work (I.e. it didn't fail). I can now run FAHControl successfully. I'm running FAHClient on another machine. I think this is one of those "it works but I'm not sure why" moments.



FWIW, the default version of Python on my box is: