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New blog post: "Vanilla BOINC packages: the reason and the purpose" (aenbleidd.blogspot.com)

submitted 8 months ago by AenBleidd@sopuli.xyz to c/boinc@sopuli.xyz

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is yet another reason why Linux stands to benefit from solutions like Flatpak. It's a pain for developers to support so many desperate distributions including ones which may elect to modify their code.

[–] AenBleidd@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Flatpak is not a native solution for Linux, unfortunately. And we have a Flatpak build of BOINC (supported by a volunteer): https://flathub.org/ru/apps/edu.berkeley.BOINC