FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu
Team Ubuntu
A competitive folding@home team has formed to represent the Ubuntu community and promote Ubuntu while doing some good. To help out, just download and install the appropriate client, which then uses your spare CPU cycles to calculate answers to important science questions! To join Team Ubuntu, simply enter 45104 when the setup dialog requests a team number.
Support & Contact
For support concerning installation, configuration and other use of the installation methods please drop Team Ubuntu's IRC channel at #ubuntu-folding on FreeNode.
Also, be to check out the FoldingAtHome page on this wiki. If that doesn't help, you may want to try this thread (for general discussion) or this thread (for installation questions) on the Ubuntu forums. You may also try the official Folding@Home forums.
Folding At Home Client Installation
Those wishing to get optimal performance from their folding box should review the Hackaday blog entry on competitive folding. Note that currently you get the best point return by running the 64bit SMP linux client, so if you have a multi-core 64-bit processor, use that one.
Details on installing and running the folding@home client as a daemon can be found on the main FoldingAtHome page.
A member of the Ubuntu community has written an automated installer and network deployment tool for installing folding @ home clients on Ubuntu (and other Linux variants). See folding project home on launchpad, or the release announcements on ubuntu tutorials.
Team Artwork
There is some "official" team artwork that has been created by ubuntuforum users 'laredo7mm' and 'nanotube'. The files are attached to this page. You are encouraged to use the small 90x90 jpg as your avatar on Ubuntu forums, as a means to spread the word about folding@home and Team Ubuntu.
Get full size GIMP xcf file here
Get full size JPEG file here
Get small JPEG file for your Ubuntu forums avatar here
The font used in the image is the official UbuntuTitle font.
Other Notes
Three other Ubuntu folding teams exist: ubuntu forum, ubuntu.is and ubuntu-fr. After nbcthreat's initiative, these have been merged into one team, and are no longer active. There is now only one active Ubuntu folding team, and that is Team Ubuntu, team #45104
Folding@Home rules only allow the original team creator to edit team attributes. Everything looks good as of now (2007-03-27), but if anything ever gets out of whack again (see comments section below for an example), we will need to get in touch with the team owner. So, for the record, the team owner is MattGalvin. Please do not bother him without dire need.