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BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install and enable BOINC on NixOS, add this to your <code>configuration.nix</code>:
BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install and enable BOINC on NixOS, add this to your <code>configuration.nix</code>:


<syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
services.boinc.enable = true;
services.boinc.enable = true;
</syntaxHighlight>
services.boinc.extraEnvPackages = [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.brotli ]; #Rosetta Beta 6.05 needs libGL.so.1 and libbrotlidec.so.1
</syntaxhighlight>




Then to open the BOINC Manager, you can run the command <code>boincmgr</code>.
Then to open the BOINC Manager, you can run the command <code>boincmgr</code>.
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Revision as of 21:57, 16 May 2024

BOINC lets you contribute computing power on your home PC to projects doing research in many scientific areas. You can contribute to a single project, or to any combination of them. To install and enable BOINC on NixOS, add this to your configuration.nix:

services.boinc.enable = true;
services.boinc.extraEnvPackages = [ pkgs.libglvnd pkgs.brotli ]; #Rosetta Beta 6.05 needs libGL.so.1 and libbrotlidec.so.1


Then to open the BOINC Manager, you can run the command boincmgr.