New blog post: "Vanilla BOINC packages: the reason and the purpose"

I have very controversial feelings about open-source software and Linux OS. From one hand, I like the idea of the transparency, when you can...

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This is yet another reason why Linux stands to benefit from solutions like Flatpak. It's a pain for developers to support so many desperate distributions including ones which may elect to modify their code.
- Flatpak is not a native solution for Linux, unfortunately. And we have a Flatpak build of BOINC (supported by a volunteer): https://flathub.org/ru/apps/edu.berkeley.BOINC