BOINC participants around the world have long been searching for a BOINC Lite distro package. All this package needs is:
- Basic GUI Desktop for single monitor with no frills
- Prompt for installing NVidia drivers during installation
- BOINC
- Text editor with optional spell check
- minimal browser
Currently BOINC participants are made to suffer. YABU (Yet Another Ubuntu) distros have been vicious when it comes to NVidia support for BOINC (GPU) users. Cryptic path to finding which driver actually works, then an update comes out for the distro and the currently installed driver doesn't work. Nope, the newer version doesn't work either, you have to go back quite a few versions to find one which works. Next update, start entire process over again. It is why many BOINC participants _never_ update a machine until BOINC projects themselves move so far away from the version they have their machine is no longer actively participating.
A BOINC Lite version would be as lite as it gets. Definitely need a 64-bit version as these machines tend to have a lot of RAM. No need for email, GUI word processor, picture viewing/editing or music software. In truth, it should be probably be the release before an official beta because it allows people to test out the hardware support without too much other stuff getting in the way. BOINC can basically set a load from 10-100% on a box so one can test out things like temp control.
