About

BoincTasks is the work of eFMer (Fred), who has developed and supported the Windows application for many years. It is the tool a lot of serious BOINC crunchers run all day, and it is released under the GPLv3.

This is a native port of that application for Linux and Windows, written by Skillz. It is not a wrapper, not an emulator and not a rewrite in another language — it is the same idea rebuilt with the same layout, menus and behaviour, using wxWidgets and BOINC's own RPC library so it runs as a normal desktop program on both.

The aim was that somebody moving from Windows should not have to relearn anything. Where the two differ, it is because the underlying platform differs, and those cases are listed on the features page.

Licence

GPLv3, the same as the original. That means you can use it, read it, change it and pass it on, provided you keep those freedoms intact for whoever you pass it to.

Reporting problems

It helps to include your distribution and version, whether you used the AppImage or the .deb, how many clients you are monitoring, and what you were doing at the time. The Log tab inside the application records connections and every operation, and is usually the fastest way to see what went wrong.

Thanks

To eFMer for the original and for keeping it going, and to the BOINC project at Berkeley for the client and the RPC interface everything here is built on.