LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go.

[Tartarus]

Optimizations complete 452 MH/s on my 5870 cards 320MH/s on my 5830. Also further tweaks have allowed me to push my cards to higher clock levels and so far its been very stable. Only a couple of things left to do and we should be ready for release !!

Have you put cgminer in the image this time around?

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[drgr33n]

Optimizations complete 452 MH/s on my 5870 cards 320MH/s on my 5830. Also further tweaks have allowed me to push my cards to higher clock levels and so far its been very stable. Only a couple of things left to do and we should be ready for release !!

Have you put cgminer in the image this time around?

Yup cgiminer is included as is hashkill We even have sticky notes lol

[Jen4538]

Optimizations complete 452 MH/s on my 5870 cards 320MH/s on my 5830. Also further tweaks have allowed me to push my cards to higher clock levels and so far its been very stable. Only a couple of things left to do and we should be ready for release !!

how soon till next release?

what is the overclock on your 5830 to achieve 320mh/s?

very impressive

Jen

[drgr33n]

Optimizations complete 452 MH/s on my 5870 cards 320MH/s on my 5830. Also further tweaks have allowed me to push my cards to higher clock levels and so far its been very stable. Only a couple of things left to do and we should be ready for release !!

how soon till next release?

what is the overclock on your 5830 to achieve 320mh/s?

very impressive

Jen

It's due for release over the next few days but as soon as I think I'm ready something else pops up Most things are complete now just looking into quickly hacking up a small installer. 5830 was clocked at 1000/300.

[drgr33n]

We now have auto wallet encryption for bitcoin and guiminer with phoenix and phatk support !!

[Smalleyster]

We now have auto wallet encryption for bitcoin and guiminer with phoenix and phatk support !!

Very cool. Can't wait to give it a whirl! 8^)

[pdawg]

We now have auto wallet encryption for bitcoin and guiminer with phoenix and phatk support !!

+111111111111111111111111111111111111

Keep rocking drgr33n!!!

[sharky112065]

Ug, I keep waiting on making the jump to Linux for the release version. Maybe I should just go for the beta and say F--- it.

I appreciate all the hard work you are doing.

Linuxcoin will be even nicer when you switch it over to Slackware.

Will we be able to use the same persistence files in the release version, or will we have to download a new one?

[drgr33n]

Ug, I keep waiting on making the jump to Linux for the release version. Maybe I should just go for the beta and say F--- it.

I appreciate all the hard work you are doing.

Linuxcoin will be even nicer when you switch it over to Slackware.

Will we be able to use the same persistence files in the release version, or will we have to download a new one?

LOL sorry bud I know that i keep pushing the release date forward but it's hard not to because everytime the ISO is built something else hits my radar . Plus it looks like I've got competition cough cough bamt hehehe Only kidding 

I promise I'll make a big push tonight to finish the installer and get this ISO out the only thing I don't want to is release with bugs again. I might ask a few to test 0.2-final before I release to the public. If you want to test send me a PM with your mining setup and I'll send you a copy.

[sharky112065]

Ug, I keep waiting on making the jump to Linux for the release version. Maybe I should just go for the beta and say F--- it.

I appreciate all the hard work you are doing.

Linuxcoin will be even nicer when you switch it over to Slackware.

Will we be able to use the same persistence files in the release version, or will we have to download a new one?

LOL sorry bud I know that i keep pushing the release date forward but it's hard not to because everytime the ISO is built something else hits my radar . Plus it looks like I've got competition cough cough bamt hehehe Only kidding  

I promise I'll make a big push tonight to finish the installer and get this ISO out the only thing I don't want to is release with bugs again. I might ask a few to test 0.2-final before I release to the public. If you want to test send me a PM with your mining setup and I'll send you a copy.

I have 3 computers running 3 x 6970's at 950/300 for 408 Mhash/s and 2 5870's in my main PC along side a GTX 470 (for gaming only) at 960/300 doing 406-408 Mhash/s (will go higher but the power supply in my main PC is only a 1000 watt, and locks up if I do anything that pulls more power on the GTX 470 [1090t black edition, SSD, 2 HD... etc... gobbles power]).

I have new cases coming tomorrow. I will put 4 x 6970 in 2 of my computers, and 4 x 5870's in the third. Then I will put the remaining 6970 along side my GTX 470 (this has run fine before hashing away and playing games -  this PC will remain windows unless I can figure out if VMware will work for mining? then I could use Linuxcoin on that as well).

Anyway, I probably would not be a good candidate until like Friday to do any testing as I will be in hardware hell for a couple days. Had it been available to test a couple days ago, I would have been a good candidate.

If it is still not released by the time I get done with the hardware I will PM you and try to get some testing done for you.

[BitPorium]

I have linuxcoin 02a installed to a usb stick. It worked on every motherboard i tried untill i got my new msi 890fxa-gd65.  it loads till it is suppose to show the gui, but it just stays blank. Any ideas? Using 4x5830 top two pcie slots vacant, using hdmi. Thanks

[Smalleyster]

If you want to test send me a PM with your mining setup and I'll send you a copy.

Sent, even tho the miner is still only a test. I know a few other with similar setups who would like to test also, before major comitments.

[drgr33n]

Thanks for the interest guys !! Just a quick note on how your wallet is encrypted.

EDIT:

Added loop to test if bitcoin is running. As soon as you close the software linuxcoin cleans up so your wallet is no longer accessible until you open the secure bitcoin client again.
1) LinuxCoin asks for a password and encrypts the password sha1. This should protect against weak passwords
2) LinuxCoin checks if an encrypteed wallet already exits. If so mounts the space, if not creates a encrypted filesystem using dm-crypt and luks and mounts your encrypted space in your home directory.
3) LinuxCoin copies the wallet.dat over to the encrypted space and symlinks it back to your bitcoin folder.
4) Linuxcoin detects when you close the bitcoin software (recommended if you want to be very secure !!) and cleans up after itself.
  
I think that's enough to keep most hackers at bay until you realize your wallet is missing and transfer your coins to a new wallet

Here's the script if anyone wants to add it to previous versions.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Bitcoin wallet encrypter
# Zarren Spry <zarren@linuxcoin.co.uk>

#GLOBALS

LOOPDEV=$(zenity --entry --text "Please enter a loop device" --entry-text "/dev/loop8");

# Start bitcoin
bitcoin -min&

# create a loop dev for the filesystem
if [ -e "$LOOPDEV" ]; then
  zenity --info --text "$LOOPDEV already exists ! Moving on .."
else
  sudo mknod -m660 $LOOPDEV b 7 8
  sudo chown root.disk $LOOPDEV
  sudo chmod 666 $LOOPDEV
fi

# Check if a wallet already exists and if not create one	
if [ -f /.wallet ]; then
	sudo losetup $LOOPDEV /.wallet
	RAW_PASSWORD=$(zenity --entry --text "Pleas enter your passphrase." --entry-text "Your passphrase here.");  
	PASSWORD=$(echo -n $RAW_PASSWORD | sha1sum | cut -d "-" -f 1)
	echo $PASSWORD | echo $PASSWORD | sudo cryptsetup luksOpen $LOOPDEV  wallet 
	sudo mount /dev/mapper/wallet ~/wallet
	sudo rm ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat
	sudo ln -s ~/wallet/wallet.dat ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat
        zenity --info --text "Your wallet has been mounted !"
else
# Create wallet
	sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/.wallet bs=1024k count=50
	mkdir ~/wallet
	sudo losetup $LOOPDEV /.wallet
	RAW_PASSWORD=$(zenity --entry --text "Pleas enter a passphrase." --entry-text "Your passphrase here.");  
	PASSWORD=$(echo -n $RAW_PASSWORD | sha1sum | cut -d "-" -f 1)
	echo "YES" | echo $PASSWORD | echo $PASSWORD | sudo cryptsetup luksFormat $LOOPDEV 
	echo $PASSWORD | echo $PASSWORD | sudo cryptsetup luksOpen $LOOPDEV  wallet 
	sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/wallet
	sudo mount /dev/mapper/wallet ~/wallet
	sudo mv ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat ~/wallet
	sudo ln -s ~/wallet/wallet.dat ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat
        zenity --info --text "Wallet encryption complete ! Your encrypted password is ${PASSWORD}."
fi

# Infinate loop to check if bitcoin is running. If not running clean up files.
while true; do
  check_running=$(pidof bitcoin)
  if [ -z $check_running ]; then
    running="0"
  else
    running="1"
  fi
  if [ $running == "0" ]; then
    sudo umount ~/wallet
    sudo rm ~/./bitcoin/wallet.dat
    sudo cryptsetup luksClose $LOOPDEV  wallet
    losetup -d $LOOPDEV
    break
  else
    sleep 8 
  fi
done

could do with some error checking but pushed for time. If I have a spare hour I'll come back to this

[Math Man]

I have linuxcoin 02a installed to a usb stick. It worked on every motherboard i tried untill i got my new msi 890fxa-gd65.  it loads till it is suppose to show the gui, but it just stays blank. Any ideas? Using 4x5830 top two pcie slots vacant, using hdmi. Thanks

When you get to the black screen, enter a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 and delete xorg.conf located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Reboot.

[BitPorium]

I have linuxcoin 02a installed to a usb stick. It worked on every motherboard i tried untill i got my new msi 890fxa-gd65.  it loads till it is suppose to show the gui, but it just stays blank. Any ideas? Using 4x5830 top two pcie slots vacant, using hdmi. Thanks

When you get to the black screen, enter a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 and delete xorg.conf located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Reboot.

Thanksdude. I never thougt of that. Now i gotte reinstall linuxcoin, thanks again

[drgr33n]

So you fancy yourself to be a uber bad ass hax0r ninja ?

Here we have a standard LinuxCoin encrypted wallet. The password is as simple as they come. Inside is some coinage for a reward !! If you can get in you get the coins simplez

http://www.mediafire.com/?35mrd9zft8cknkx

[lodcrappo]

LOL sorry bud I know that i keep pushing the release date forward but it's hard not to because everytime the ISO is built something else hits my radar . Plus it looks like I've got competition cough cough bamt hehehe Only kidding 

No competition at all man, I've probably recommended LinuxCoin to more people who've asked me about bamt than I have bamt itself  

[drgr33n]

LOL sorry bud I know that i keep pushing the release date forward but it's hard not to because everytime the ISO is built something else hits my radar . Plus it looks like I've got competition cough cough bamt hehehe Only kidding  

No competition at all man, I've probably recommended LinuxCoin to more people who've asked me about bamt than I have bamt itself  

LOL I was only kidding !! BAMT rules too ! Love the web interface and how simple it is to get mining Thanks for the recommendations bud !!

PS: I was going to ask you about maybe *borrowing* some of your work to implement into the PXE side of linuxcoin ? Would make a nice collaboration and I'm willing to give you a percentage of donations ? I'll PM you

[drgr33n]

Sorry about the bump guys but I'm getting very close to a finished product here and wanted to know if you guys want anything else added to linuxcoin ? Alls left to do is the graphical stuff and a plymouth theme So get your requests in now !!!! lol

heres a screenshot of the new version running a secure bitcoin wallet and guiminer rocking phoenix This version rules lol

[TripHammer]

You rock sir!

Not sure I can remember you saying it was added, but the option to reboot into persistence automatically so that when I'm away I can remote reboot and have the system come up automatically.

Thanks again

Trip