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Message 15 - Posted: 28 Sep 2026, 14:24:24 UTC

Please, if you can, include a 32-bit Linux application for this project.

My 32-bit linux computer can already take part in the standalone project; it automatically compiled a suitable application.
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Message 16 - Posted: 28 Sep 2026, 14:36:01 UTC - in response to Message 15.  

Thanks for asking, and thanks for running the standalone client - you are
already contributing to exactly the same search. Your machine compiled the
solver on its own, and its results go into the same pool as everyone else's.

A 32-bit BOINC application would give you a second route to the same work,
not more work done.

The cost is not the build, it is the maintenance: we went from version 2.14
to 2.28 in five days, and every platform has to follow each time. A platform
nobody tests already cost us 859 lost work ranges last month. We would also
need to audit the 64-bit arithmetic before publishing anything 32-bit.

If several people ask for it, I will do the audit and add the platform
properly. For a machine that is already computing, the standalone client is
both faster for you and safer for the project.
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