Page 1 of 1

BOINC 5.8.11 for all platforms out

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:33 pm
by DJH@GB-Ro
Go get it  8)

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:43 pm
by UBT - Mikee
Gone got it!

Anyone else wanting to do this can get it from here.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:47 pm
by Timby
Image Yep got it Image

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:23 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
UBT - Mikeejones wrote:Gone got it!

Anyone else wanting to do this can get it from here.
Thanks Mikee, I should have given a link  :oops:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:58 am
by UBT - Terry
Hi people
Can i assume that they got the bugs out then coz read 5.811 wasn't quite ready??

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:49 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Terry Caney wrote:Hi people
Can i assume that they got the bugs out then coz read 5.811 wasn't quite ready??
BOINC has never been quite ready since the 1st ever release :wink:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:51 am
by UBT - Terry
Get where your coming from he he  :lol:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:08 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
I'm looking forward to when they give out a version with the sorting by columns feature that was in the test version 5.8.6 8)

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:32 am
by UBT-mark3346
Is there a problem with 5.8.8 or any new features with 5.8.11 that make it worth upgrading again as 5.8.8 was not long ago :?:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:39 am
by UBT - Timbo
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:I'm looking forward to when they give out a version with the sorting by columns feature that was in the test version 5.8.6 8)
A very long time ago, you could sort by columns, which was very useful...must have been one of the early v4.x releases. And for some reason they dropped it. :roll:

Am still waiting for the time, when you can specify your own project preferences locally - i.e. if project "x" out of work/not contactable, etc then crunch project "y".

regards

Tim

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:57 am
by Rockinfroggi
UBT-mark3346 wrote:Is there a problem with 5.8.8 or any new features with 5.8.11 that make it worth upgrading again as 5.8.8 was not long ago :?:

Thinking the very same thing Mark.



Gary.

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:41 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
If your version works fine there is no need to upgrade at this moment it time, I would leave it until a version with major changes come out. Only changes are work fetch policy and small other improvements, nothing drastic

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:02 pm
by DJH@GB-Ro
I don't see why people are so relunctant to upgrade, only takes seconds, don't have to uninstall old ones or anything. Even stops any running instances of BOINC. A lot of people seemed to be having some problems with 5.8.8, I didn't have any but it's nice to be up to date and know I won't come accross those solved problems.  :D

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:34 pm
by UBT - The Prof....
Have just upgraded, took about 30 seconds and now crunching away merrily again. No problems at all 8)

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:55 pm
by UBT-mark3346
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:I don't see why people are so relunctant to upgrade, only takes seconds, don't have to uninstall old ones or anything. Even stops any running instances of BOINC. A lot of people seemed to be having some problems with 5.8.8, I didn't have any but it's nice to be up to date and know I won't come accross those solved problems.  :D
Depends on your connection speed (takes several mins on mine) and how many machines you need to update. Also one of my machines would not restart Boinc after the update and I had to shut it down and restart it so unless there are major advantages I would not rush to "upgrade" again as 5.8 has no advantage to me over the previous version anyway (if anything it is harder to force a work fetch with it).

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:20 pm
by DJH@GB-Ro
Didn't  think about multiple machines :oops:
I like 5.4.11 if DepSpid didn't recommend later versions, I'd still use it. I've even gone back to 5.4.11 just to get more SAP models then come back to 5.8.x  :oops:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:38 pm
by UBT - Chris Suddick
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:I don't see why people are so relunctant to upgrade, only takes seconds, don't have to uninstall old ones or anything. Even stops any running instances of BOINC. A lot of people seemed to be having some problems with 5.8.8, I didn't have any but it's nice to be up to date and know I won't come accross those solved problems.  :D
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Chris.

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:17 pm
by Gary
wouldn't work for me, had to reinstall 5.8.8.

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:17 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:I don't see why people are so relunctant to upgrade, only takes seconds, don't have to uninstall old ones or anything. Even stops any running instances of BOINC. A lot of people seemed to be having some problems with 5.8.8, I didn't have any but it's nice to be up to date and know I won't come accross those solved problems.  :D
Also there is no need to upgrade if your BOINC client already does what you need it to, there are no major changes in this release that warrant everyone downloading it straight away

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:34 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
The only big change is really for Linux users they have attempted to alter the benchmarks to make them more equal with Windows users.

And there was also a major bug to do with the scheduling of BOINC but thats about all.

The one for me is going to be the column sorting version just as soon as the bugs are worked out