Wrong operating system

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Sabroe_SMC Send message Joined: 30 Jan 17 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,004,366,546 RAC: 2,308,110	Message 2084 - Posted: 4 Aug 2025, 11:21:38 UTC Last modified: 4 Aug 2025, 11:22:02 UTC 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? ID: 2084 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Speedy Send message Joined: 6 Jun 17 Posts: 89 Credit: 243,549,995 RAC: 1,208,847	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 ID: 2086 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sabroe_SMC Send message Joined: 30 Jan 17 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,004,366,546 RAC: 2,308,110	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. ID: 2087 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Speedy Send message Joined: 6 Jun 17 Posts: 89 Credit: 243,549,995 RAC: 1,208,847	Message 2088 - Posted: 10 Aug 2025, 21:21:32 UTC - in response to Message 2087. Last modified: 10 Aug 2025, 21:22:23 UTC 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 ID: 2088 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 551 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0	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. ID: 2089 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sabroe_SMC Send message Joined: 30 Jan 17 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,004,366,546 RAC: 2,308,110	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. ID: 2090 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Speedy Send message Joined: 6 Jun 17 Posts: 89 Credit: 243,549,995 RAC: 1,208,847	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 ID: 2091 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote