boinc in fedora?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> Hello,
> how about having Boinc (the client for distributed computing) part of 
> the main repository. And fix a gui/make an integration to let say a 
> screensaver activation so it only runs when user is idle. Use it as a 
> marketing purpose and say fedora comes ready to participate in for 
> example distributed climate prediction!

There are many such distributed clients. The Boinc client is under LGPL 
and can be made available in Fedora which would be the first step before 
connecting it to a screensaver. If you are interested in doing so, see

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Also FYI,

http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC

Rahul