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I retiring one of my dual Xeon boxes from folding (she just can't fold for shit) and moving all my actual server work to that, and dedicating my other one to folding 100%. There is an obvious advantage of Linux points wise at the moment but what confuses me is which distro / version / etc. to use. I found one guide in the win vs linux thread with setup for ubuntu 10.10 but before i commit to anything i just wanted to get from the horses mouth what provides best results (without lots of administration). i'll admit i'm a Windows guy but, if it gets the science done a little faster then i'll pretend it's an appliance and look the other way. =p

thanks
 
Use Musky's guide to setup Ubuntu. It's the simplest, and really straightforward.
Use this post after you are all done to setup the ability for it to run as a service. I might need to go in and add some chmods to get it working properly for someone, but it's fairly straightforward as well.

If you don't want to deal with setting up samba for windows networking, check out the cherokee web server.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cherokee-werbserver/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cherokee libcherokee-mod-libssl libcherokee-mod-rrd

It will give you the instructions to get to the web interface. I normally set it so all port traffic to port 8008 goes to /home/folding/fah to make life easy.
 
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One step at a time...Syran is getting too excited here... :)

Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 is about as painless as Linux gets. Before you get too crazy with other add-ons, the first thing we need to know is what kind of machine is your server? That will help us advise you one what other "stuff" you will need to do. Even the guide linked above assumes an Intel machine and does not have a needed section for multi-processor machines. I am in the processes of re-writing it now. You will not hurt anything if you follow it completely, and you will be up and running. You just may have to do a couple of additional (easy) steps to optimize.
 
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One step at a time...Syran is getting too excited here... :)

Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 is about as painless as Linux gets. Before you get too crazy with other add-ons, the first thing we need to know is what kind of machine is your server? That will help us advise you one what other "stuff" you will need to do. Even the guide linked above assumes an Intel machine and does not have a needed section for multi-processor machines. I am in the processes of re-writing it now. You will not hurt anything if you follow it completely, and you will be up and running. You just may have to do a couple of additional (easy) steps to optimize.
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Good to know you are doing this. I was thinking about doing this in the airport this weekend.
 
it is a dual xeon x5550.
it is on an Intel server board, i've thought about changing out the mainboard (to an SR-2), but i might just save that $ for new D instead.
 
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RAD_MAN said:
it is a dual xeon x5550.
it is on an Intel server board, i've thought about changing out the mainboard (to an SR-2), but i might just save that $ for new D instead.
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Perfect. Follow that post to the letter - you do want the BFS stuff (the -ck patch) for that setup. I'll get you instruction on the kraken wrapper, which you also want. Piece of cake - I am running exactly that setup right now.
 
sorry to sound dumb but i follow the link posted by Syran or the link i referanced in the original thread? thanks.
 
Thanks. I couldn't find it, even though I knew it was around, and had personally used it a couple of times now.
 
I think when you're done with it Musky, it should be sticky'd or at least added to our tips/setup post. Its good, well put together information.
 
Setting up samba on ubuntu takes all of 2 minutes, its very easy. If you'd like I'd be more then happy to help walk you through it once you get everything else up and running.
 
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