Today I have released Dotsch/UX 1.2.

Dotsch/UX is a Linux distribution for BOINC which easily installs and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients and also has some interfaces to setup the diskless server and the clients automatically.

For more informations have a look at http://www.dotsch.de/Dotsch_UX

New features in 1.2 :
• Build in NVIDIA CUDA support, a additional tool to enable and check the NVIDIA CUDA support.
• Persistent Live CD mode for testing the distribution as Live CD and store the data on a USB stick/disk
• Automated and semiautomatic backup of the BOINC client data and some other OS data
• Included Ganglia for performance monitoring of the Dotsch/UX Grids
• Pre Installed BOINC client 6.10.17
• Removed a lot of unneeded packages in the x86 and x64 distribution
• A lot of bug fixes and enhancements

Special thanks to all the peoples which supported and helped to make the new distribution possible !

Any plans to update Dotsch/UX? I have a computer that needs a newer version of the kernel for the network adapters to work, and the built-in updater returns an error. I suppose I could just run plain Ubuntu off a USB stick, but I was hoping that using a distribution tailored to BOINC and portable use would be more efficient.

Any plans to update Dotsch/UX? I have a computer that needs a newer version of the kernel for the network adapters to work, and the built-in updater returns an error. I suppose I could just run plain Ubuntu off a USB stick, but I was hoping that using a distribution tailored to BOINC and portable use would be more efficient.

He found not enough tester and was busy with other things.
If you want to upgrade you need to edit the sources in /etc/apt/sources.lst.
After changing all entries from "http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" to "http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ i could install missing software like cmake and other compiler stuff.
I think when you edit the same file and change "intrepid" to the next used codename, you should be able to upgrade to 9.04 then 9.10 and so on. A direct-upgrade from 8.10 to 11.10 is not possible.

In the moment i make experiments with Lubuntu11.10. It uses kernel 3.0.0-12/14 with LXDE as desktop and not that gnome3- or unity-stuff.