ports/50723: astro/setiathome request: use linux version instead of native

[Dan Naumov]

>Number:         50723
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       astro/setiathome request: use linux version instead of native
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 08 06:40:05 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dan Naumov
>Release:        
>Organization:
none, home user
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #0:
Mon Apr  7 05:17:14 EEST 2003
root at localhost.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JAGO  i386

>Description:
I propose the replacement of the astro/setiathome port with the linux
version of the SETI client. There are many reasons for this:

1) It has been tested and proven that the Linux seti binary actually
runs faster than the FreeBSD binary, EVEN if you run the Linux binary
from within FreeBSD. If you don't believe me, try it for yourself.

2) Newer versions of the Linux client come out faster. The current
version of astro/setiathome is marked FORBIDDEN because there is a
security issue and the FreeBSD native binary hasn't been released yet.
The updated Linux version has been out since day one.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
No fix yet, shall I make an astro/linux-setiathome port ?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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