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Message 2084 - Posted: 4 Aug 2025, 11:21:38 UTC
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https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/hosts_user.php
https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/results.php?hostid=235963

How can it happen that a completely wrong operating system is displayed there?
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Message 2086 - Posted: 10 Aug 2025, 8:13:31 UTC

It's showing the correct OS this was brought in with Boinc version 8.2.4
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Message 2087 - Posted: 10 Aug 2025, 14:35:21 UTC - in response to Message 2086.  
Last modified: 10 Aug 2025, 14:39:13 UTC

That's nonsense. My computer runs Windows 11, not Ubuntu.
All other projects, and I do a lot of them, show my system with Windows 11 as the operating system.
Furthermore, you can't calculate Windows tasks under Linux.
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Message 2088 - Posted: 10 Aug 2025, 21:21:32 UTC - in response to Message 2087.  
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Each to their own. I also run Windows 11 and do not have an issue with my machine reporting it is running Linux. Personally I like it

Here are the client release notes for version 8 https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes
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Message 2089 - Posted: 11 Aug 2025, 7:55:59 UTC - in response to Message 2084.  

Changes in 8.2.4

Win:

Use BOINC WSL distro if present


WSL = Windows Subsystem for Linux, and yes it is Ubuntu under the hood.
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Message 2090 - Posted: 11 Aug 2025, 12:20:19 UTC - in response to Message 2089.  
Last modified: 11 Aug 2025, 12:22:43 UTC

11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | Starting BOINC client version 8.2.5 for windows_x86_64
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, app_msg_send
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | Libraries: libcurl/8.14.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | Data directory: C:\DataBOINC
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | Running under account ******
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (driver version 580.88, CUDA version 13.0, compute capability 8.9, 23.99GB, 23.99GB available, 82575 GFLOPS peak)
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (driver version 580.88, device version OpenCL 3.0 CUDA, 23.99GB, 23.99GB available, 82575 GFLOPS peak)
11.08.2025 14:13:35 | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (driver version 3628.0 (PAL,LC), device version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (3628.0), 24.18GB, 24.18GB available, 563 GFLOPS peak)
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | Docker detection in Ubuntu-24.04:
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | - cmd: podman --version
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | - output: /bin/bash: line 1: podman: command not found
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | Docker detection in Ubuntu-24.04:
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | - cmd: docker --version
11.08.2025 14:13:39 | | - output: /bin/bash: line 1: docker: command not found
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Docker detection in Ubuntu:
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - cmd: podman --version
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - output: /bin/bash: line 1: podman: command not found
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Docker detection in Ubuntu:
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - cmd: docker --version
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - output: /bin/bash: line 1: docker: command not found
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Windows processor group 0: 32 processors
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Computer name: MikesMachine
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Processor: 32 AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor [Family 25 Model 97 Stepping 2]
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 avx512f avx512dq adx avx512ifma avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl avx512vbmi avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq sse4a osvw wdt topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 11: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.26100.00)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Memory: 63.16 GB physical, 67.16 GB virtual
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Disk: 1.86 TB total, 335.38 GB free
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Local time is UTC +2 hours
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | Usable WSL distros:
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - Ubuntu-24.04 (WSL 2) (default)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - OS: Ubuntu (Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - libc version: 2.39
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - boinc-buda-runner (WSL 2)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - OS: Alpine Linux (Alpine Linux v3.21)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - Docker version 5.3.2 (podman)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - BOINC WSL distro version 1
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - Ubuntu (WSL 2)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - OS: Ubuntu (Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS)
11.08.2025 14:13:54 | | - libc version: 2.39

This is the message that my boinc displays.
You can't think that WSL is for displaying the operating system of the executing computer.
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Message 2091 - Posted: 11 Aug 2025, 22:19:45 UTC

Have you installed Podman? To install Podman follow these instructions https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Installing-Docker-on-Windows
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