Choice for mining rig operating system

[Ortulas]

Is there any preference for operating systems? Is there any benefits of certain ones?

I'm trying to get a headless ubuntu system going with my Radeon 5850 but the catalyst drivers are just not cooperating. I guess I'm mostly wondering if the days of struggling with catalyst and ubuntu is worth it.

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LinuxCoin

Just burn it to a USB stick and you're ready to go.

There are some other Bitcoin mining distros out there.

[Ortulas]

I was kinda wondering along the lines of windows, or linux, that kind of thing. I did look into the one you posted though, but it seems like it's no longer being developed.

[huanix]

In general Linux tends to have less overhead than Windows, but Windows tools are developed to the point that they're simple to use.

If you're new to mining, I suggest windows, guiminer, and slush's pool.

After you get comfortable with the flow, you ought to give headless mining a shot. There are two very old prepackaged linux distro's to do this with: BAMT (Big A$$ Miner Thing) and Linuxcoin. Both projects are mothballed, but the basic functionality works - except you'll need to manually add stratum proxy.

[Ortulas]

Yeah i've got my main desktop mining right now on Ubuntu, in slush's pool, with poclbm on the command line. I just want to get this other machine doing it rather than on my main machine. I'm confident I can get the mining working, but getting these catalyst drivers working may be a different story, lol.

[Ortulas]

Bah, I was having a very silly and minor issue with the Catalyst drivers that i didn't catch. Once I got that figured out everything's running perfectly. I was very near deciding to just install windows, but I'm glad I stuck it out and got everything figured out. The linux setup is so much nicer to run headless.