Yeah, that’s mostly true. Windows MSI API is… something. Before I started working on it, I was ready to everything, even to see installation scripts in Visual Basic but damn, for all the logic they are using Database with a very simple SQL language that has even no support of foreign keys! But now I feel I can implement almost anything required on bare API after a month of work with it.

Linux users! Please update your BOINC 8.0.0 (that contains backdoor in liblzma/xz library) to BOINC 8.0.1. TL;DR: You are still safe. More details here: https://aenbleidd.blogspot.com/2024/04/boinc-release-800-and-liblzma.html

Linux users! Please update your BOINC 8.0.0 (that contains backdoor in liblzma/xz library) to BOINC 8.0.1. TL;DR: You are still safe. More details here: https://aenbleidd.blogspot.com/2024/04/boinc-release-800-and-liblzma.html

The instructions for installing BOINC 8.0 on Fedora were incorrect. Corrected instructions are here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

If you have a Fedora system, please retest.

The instructions for installing BOINC 8.0 on Fedora were incorrect. Corrected instructions are here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

If you have a Fedora system, please retest.

For Android users, BOINC 8.0.0 is also available for testing on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/edu.berkeley.boinc/

For Android users, BOINC 8.0.0 is also available for testing on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/edu.berkeley.boinc/

Flatpak is not a native solution for Linux, unfortunately. And we have a Flatpak build of BOINC (supported by a volunteer): https://flathub.org/ru/apps/edu.berkeley.BOINC