FreeBSD Jails VS BOINC

You can install FreeBSD on an external disk. The FreeBSD Handbook answers the other questions. Source: 11 months ago

I have an veeery old notebook (Toshiba tecra s2) and wanted to give this machine a new life. Learning about unix and so on. Are the docs on https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ a good start for this? Or does someone has any recommendations? Source: about 1 year ago

In the official handbook read chapters 1-5, 13, & 19 to get oriented. Source: about 1 year ago

The system that exhibits the best software engineering in its development and in the software packaging process is undoubtedly FreeBSD -- it wouldn't hurt to look at it more carefully. I build all of my desktop (Gnome/Plasma/XFCE) and math and programming languages / editors from source code on FreeBSD using the latest stable operating system release (13.1, soon to be 13.2). See the FreeBSD Journal to get an... Source: over 1 year ago

I'd suggest not doing any searches, and just using the default documentation. The handbook is what drew me to FreeBSD nearly two decades ago. Not random documentation from different users trying to accomplish the same thing in multiple ways often with little regard to security or functionality. The Handbook isn't without flaws, but it is a excellent unified documentation that covers every basic topic. Source: over 1 year ago

The only way I can foresee a cryptocoin actually holding value is if spending the coin meant spending processing cycles and RAM doing things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects But in more general sense, less like https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and more like AWS... It's the only way to have value, actually holding computing power in a distributed network. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

Or alternatively: Boinc[1], which has a bunch of different projects. [1] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Made me think of Gridcoin and BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

The BOINC Census is back for another year! BOINC is an open source software and network for volunteer computing. People can use it do donate their CPU/GPU power to various scientific research areas like cancer, drug discovery, mapping the galaxy, and more. Source: 5 months ago

A few years back, I was in a similar situation and found BOINC(https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) to be a great way to contribute. It's a platform that lets you support various scientific research projects by sharing your computational power and bandwidth. However, it's worth noting that BOINC might tends to be more CPU/GPU intensive rather than bandwidth-heavy. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago