:: 17-Feb-2000 08:53 (Thursday) ::

I can belatedly announce the release of dnetc458-linux-ppc-static-mt. A
few notes:

* Built on MkLinux-pre-R1 with gcc 2.95.3 and statically linked against
glibc2.1.3. Hopefully there are no resolver issues, although, now that
I’ve upgraded, I no longer have a glibc2.0 machine on which to test.

* This is the first mt linux-ppc port.

* No AltiVec support. I won’t be able to add AltiVec support to the client
until the kernel supports AltiVec. This support appears to be far from
ready, although admittedly I don’t follow the kernel development lists
that closely.

:: 17-Feb-2000 00:39 (Thursday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– Acorn RISC OS [ARM] v2.8007.458

– NeXT/OS [x86] v2.8007.458

– Solaris/SunOS [2.x/x86/MT] v2.8007.458

– NetBSD [m68k] v2.8007.458

– Linux [ARM/aout] v2.8007.458

We now have 30 clients that are v2.8007.458!

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html By Sys:
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Changes.txt: http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

Enjoy.

:: 16-Feb-2000 22:14 (Wednesday) ::

As most of you have discovered, OGR-24 is underway, although lacking stats.
Throughout the coming days, we’ll be working to get OGR stats online and
functional. While the structure of the OGR stats data doesn’t significantly
differ from the previous RC5/DES/CSC tables, we feel that this is an
appropriate time for us to make some changes to the underlying tables and
the stats updating code. This is why there will be a delay in
implementation.

Additionally, we’ve received two donations from participants who have
asked that their donation be earmarked as prize money for the participant
who “wins” OGR-24 by finding the optimal 24-mark golumb ruler. We plan
on putting some money into the mix as well, and perhaps setting aside some
money for a nonprofit as we’ve done in previous efforts.

It may not amount to anything more than a few hundred dollars and some
cow from omahasteaks.com, but we do intend to offer some form of prize
for OGR contests as our budget permits.

:: 15-Feb-2000 10:56 (Tuesday) ::

lots of OGR updates:
added live rate info to projects and www.distributed.net/index.html
added ogr to /statistics/index.html added rate generation scripts to n0
setup

:: 15-Feb-2000 06:46 (Tuesday) ::

Well, it’s been a long haul but OGR is finally live! Thanks for everybody’s
support while we worked out all the last bugs. We now have a client that
works with contests other than cryptography challenges, which itself is
worth lots.

Good luck!

:: 14-Feb-2000 19:03 (Monday) ::

Yes, the OGR contest launch has been moved forward slightly just to give
us a little more time to syncronize all of our upgrades behind the scenes.
It has now been officially set for Tue Feb 15 06:00 UTC.

:: 14-Feb-2000 07:03 (Monday) ::

Stats are still running happily away, and should finish sometime tonight,
so I’ve turned web access back on. Since web access was disabled during
the 2/9 and 2/10 runs, the static pages are out of date right now (they’re
probably showing 2/11 data). As 2/12 and 2/13 run, they should update
(2/11 is running right now, fwiw).

:: 14-Feb-2000 05:32 (Monday) ::

The following clients have been updated/added:

– NeXT/OS [m68k] v2.8007.458 – Tru64 UNIX / DEC UNIX / OSF1 [Alpha]
v2.8007.458 – OpenBSD [Sparc/aout] v2.8007.458

The following proxies have been updated/added:

– OS/2 (x86) [313] – Linux glibc2.1 (alpha) [313]

By Date: http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html By Sys:
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html

Changes.txt: http://www.distributed.net/download/changes.txt

:: 13-Feb-2000 23:55 (Sunday) ::

Stats are now running for 2/9-2/11. I’ve turned off web access in order
to speed this up.

:: 13-Feb-2000 23:19 (Sunday) ::

Update: after further investigation, the stats for 2/9 were actually run
twice, so I will also be removing that day and re-importing.