Have they managed to fix graphics output for the Rosetta@home now? I want to use Linux as much as possible and do miss the graphics which I got from the Windows system.

I have been running rosetta@home for years now.

Nope, graphics is not working on my 64bit ubuntu installation.

I myself is a contributor in the rosetta@home science project and I would like to see that Boinc gets installed on workplaces here in Sweden. Although, since some things concerns personal privacy and therefore security must be very high in some places, I guess that it isn't possible to install Boinc everywhere, unfortunately.

When it comes to computer security I believe and think it's very important for sceptics to be aware of the consequences of hacked servers and so on.

Can anyone in this forum answer if Boinc with Rosetta@home could cause serious security problems for companys or private people?

I as a person believe very strongly in high computer security, in fact it's one of my personal interests and that is why the question is interesting for me. I know how a computer firewall works and that Boinc needs a certain port to be open to be able to accept incoming and outgoing IP traffic.

The general security issues involved in distributed computing such as BOINC (and R@H) are discussed here along with the approaches taken to address these issues.

Specifically, all data-distribution and communication from our servers are 'pulled' by the client, at the client's request, from the server. We don't make un-solicited communications with client computers, excepting rare project update emails to those who've elected to receive them. For BOINC to work on your computer, firewall configs need only allow outbound connection to ports 80 (http) and 443 (https). [BOINC running locally on your computer needs to be able to connect back to other ports on your computer as well.]

-KEL