Topic: Linux Mint for Bitcoin Mining (Read 7729 times)

I'd like it too.  It would also be nice to just know what packages you installed so I can replicate it on Linux Mint 15.

Thanks

Hi Vam,

Nice to heard about your succeed mining on Linux Mint. I'm planing use Linux Mint Xfce for my first mining rig, but can't get it online for now because my new to Linux OS. If there're any guide for mining with Mint that would be great!

Have a good mining day!

This sounds like a great idea, I would be interested in this package, if it works well on my system I am willing to donate for your troubles.

Also how do you get the local temperature into your system?

http://www.linuxmint.com/

I haven't seen anyone on here using Linux Mint 10 for their mining operations so I figured I would let you guys know why I use Mint and what I did to mint to make it work better. First of all Linux Mint was based on Ubuntu but there is also a Debian version being forked as well. Mint is a pretty small distribution considering what it comes with.

From their homepage:


Mint is a very safe and reliable distribution to use and plugs holes that Ubuntu developers never did. You can easily deploy the installation in a few clicks from a LiveCD and you can install ATi and Nvidia drivers very easily without having to mess around with Xorg and conf files most of the time. For the average user Linux Mint is great. For the advanced user it puts everything in your hand to build a very powerful platform to launch bitcoin mining rigs from. I have my custom built distribution on a 1GB USB key and I can deploy the miner in a little less than 10 minutes (most of that time is spent installing the software to a HDD).

But there were a few issues with Mint that I had correct before I could use it the way I wanted to. I have created my own installation version of Mint that comes with all of the packages required to run a bitcoin mining operation. I've hardened the distribution and secured SSH more among other things I've updated Mint to use the latest ATi drivers as well as modifications to the Gnome desktop which was causing problems with over clocked cards.

I've also written startup scripts which launches Xorg and then the miner from bootup. A cronjob that monitors the miners and tries to fix the miner if it is failing and if not simply reboots the system which usually solves problems when Xorg locks up because of overclocking.

I've also written some monitoring scripts which is also packaged in the distribution.

With LinuxCoin I am not sure if there is any need to release yet another distribution supporting Bitcoin but considering all the newbies trying to get LinuxCoin and Ubuntu to work I figured this could be another option. Not sure yet.

Example Putty screen grab from running my ./tempcheck.sh script. I have pooled these together and dump data out to a central location for internal web browsing of logs. I've been working on an email notifier for the miners the past few days.

I'd be happy to share my package logs and built binaries with the n00bs.