I completely understand. The point about it being the magazine's team is a good one (and makes the name change seem even more awkward). For non-CustomPC people like me, and it's possible I'm the only one, the situation is slightly different - I don't read the magazine and the team forum has now moved to somewhere I don't visit, so I don't really have any connection to it anymore.

I'll continue folding, but for the time being I'll be doing it teamlessly.

Rather like a poor abandoned orphan...


You could use the Linux client in a VirtualBox VM.


Yes, I didn't write that very clearly. What I meant was that I assume most of the old forum 18 people will join the bit-tech forum and stay in the renamed CustomPC team.

I did think about this. I wasn't sure what unnecessary overhead it might bring?
I may post a thread in the open source forum asking some questions...

I personally would prefere to stay with the Custom PC folding team. i like the Magazine and after all we are no 5,

The Linux client is pretty good. Before the Windows SMP beta client was released, I used to run two Linux installs in VMware each running the SMP client and it used to give me slightly higher points per day than I get now with the native Windows client. You might find that you need to lower the priority of VirtualBox at to stop it adversely affecting the performance of your server though.

I shall do some research...And learn Linux, I was using it today and none of the commands I typed in worked

Yeah, I'm familiar with that experience!