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Looking for someone who might be interested in undertaking this project -

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2322.0

We want to create a CD that anyone can put in any PC, boot it up and start mining with zero config.

What kind of bounty are we talking about? I could do this Ubuntu or Debian.

I think it's going to be an ongoing project . . . the mining software is continually being expanded and improved, and the smart zero config can continually be improved to support wider and wider range of hardware, so I think we'd want a payment structure to reflect that.

The problem with a live cd that doesn't write to disk would be configuring your pool workers each boot therefore not allowing 0 config. There could be a web interface that accepted the pool/worker credentials and inject a config file into the ISO before providing a download link. Allow the custom iso to be available for about 5 hours before deleting it to save on storage fees.

Another alternative would be to allow users to sign-up on your site, generate a unique hardware ID on first boot where the user would enter this on your site to associate your account with the mining pc.  They would then be able to add workers on your site and on boot the software would auto check for the unique id and download the worker data. That'd be the best method IMO.

We're thinking along the same lines :)

However I'm thinking a sign-up would be unnecessary - the pc could send the unique hardware ID could ask the website what address it should mine for. This would remove the need for the user to enter the address each time.

Choosing the best miner + parameters for the CPUs and GPUs should all be zero config. I'm thinking we could get something built fast that just uses a generic miner for the CPU, and then continuously improve over time.

They would only enter the code one time to associate their workers with the machine.

Do you have a specific flavor of Linux you're wanting to use?

I don't know much about the different flavours -

yvg1900 has just released an awesome CPU miner update that is 300% faster than anything I thought was possible, the guy really knows his stuff, so I've asked him what he thinks - we'll almost certainly want to go with whatever he recommends -

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1630.msg28090#msg28090

This would be so awesome! Great push for all the coins, mining should be even easier than guiminer!

I'll try to make a helpful post when i'm not that bussy xD Just wasted to say: Great idea!