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Hello,

Apologies is this has been covered before elsewhere, but I was wondering whether a Linux Client is on the cards?

If the porting of the Windows GUI etc posed too many problems, how about the possibility of a Linux client purely tailored for taking measurements, forgetting the GUI?

Thanks,
Meep.

My guess is that they're waiting to fully design the Windows client and get it out of beta then port it to linux.

Ummm...the client is a Java client...don't need any os-specific client.

(or are you looking for a linux installer?)

It is a JAVA client yes, but it has already been found that using different flavours of JAVA on Windows workstations causes issues, porting the same code into Linux JAVA will surely bring up similar if not even more bizarre problems.

The request was more for a version of DIMES that can run on Linux that ideally does not have the GUI / JAVA element, a pure shell based measurement client.

I, like most I am sure, are more interested in providing a large quantity of excellent results for this project and are not too fussed with exactly what each individual agent is doing.... aslong as its working.

Actually, a linux version is on the way - http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/danss/p2p ... index.html . It will also have an option of running the agent in service mode - so no GUI there.
Regarding the porting - the agent is not pure Java - small parts of it are native - doing those things that aren't possible in Java.