Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.2.

Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX

New features in 1.2 :
• Build in NVIDIA CUDA support, a additional tool to enable and check the NVIDIA CUDA support.
• Persistent Live CD mode for testing the distribution as Live CD and store the data on a USB stick/disk
• Automated and semiautomatic backup of the BOINC client data and some other OS data
• Included Ganglia for performance monitoring of the Dotsch/UX Grids
• Pre Installed BOINC client 6.10.17
• Removed a lot of unneeded packages in the x86 and x64 distribution
• A lot of bug fixes and enhancements

Special thanks to all the peoples which supported and helped to make the new distribution possible !

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Now this is something I'm interested in. Thanks.

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Now this is something I'm interested in. Thanks.

I have used an earlier release and it works just fine! I am not into Linux enough though to use the Server version yet, although I would love to.

Now this is something I'm interested in. Thanks.

I have used an earlier release and it works just fine! I am not into Linux enough though to use the Server version yet, although I would love to.

The diskless server and client setup is not very difficult. You need some basic knowledge about networking, TCP/IP and IT.

From the standard HDD installation are only some more points look pay attention. Specailly a separate filesystem for /diskless and, and the recommendations for the DHCP server (single DHCP per physical network - eventually you have got to disable the DHCP server on the DSL router or make an additional separate network for the diskless clients and server. But there is some documentation about this on the website available...

The server setup is also simple. Some IP/subnet configs, DHCP IP ranges, DNS server and default GW must been specified. - The installer would do the rest of all configs and setup a master for the architecture of the CD you have inserted.
After the setup it's possible to add a different architecture via a installer tool. - So the server can host i386 and x64 diskless clients.
The diskless client installer requires the MAC address via auto detection or manual input and the architecture of the diskless client.

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Now this is something I'm interested in. Thanks.

I have used an earlier release and it works just fine! I am not into Linux enough though to use the Server version yet, although I would love to.

The diskless server and client setup is not very difficult. You need some basic knowledge about networking, TCP/IP and IT.

From the standard HDD installation are only some more points look pay attention. Specailly a separate filesystem for /diskless and, and the recommendations for the DHCP server (single DHCP per physical network - eventually you have got to disable the DHCP server on the DSL router or make an additional separate network for the diskless clients and server. But there is some documentation about this on the website available...

The server setup is also simple. Some IP/subnet configs, DHCP IP ranges, DNS server and default GW must been specified. - The installer would do the rest of all configs and setup a master for the architecture of the CD you have inserted.
After the setup it's possible to add a different architecture via a installer tool. - So the server can host i386 and x64 diskless clients.
The diskless client installer requires the MAC address via auto detection or manual input and the architecture of the diskless client.

Thanks for the reply, in 3 weeks I will have a month off and I will try it again then.

I keep getting read errors with the .iso downloaded from your website :S (it'll boot into console, and won't load the GUI). I'm downloading it from the torrent, hopefully the .iso isn't corrupt there. (Using virtualbox to create the USB stick directly, so I know it isn't a CD burning error).

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