I'm really eager to test out the linux remote agent. I'd like to use as stripped down a distro as possible, basically just the bare minimum needed to mine in linux via command line, preferably off of a USB stick.
Can anyone recommend a pre-packaged distro with the bare minimum required for mining, specifically the drivers? Or a up to date guide that outlines the bare minimum steps to making ubuntu server mining ready?
Also, are there any limitations to the current linux agent aside from the mining software that can be automatically downloaded? Can we still upload custom software? What if any methods are available to control GPU clocks?
The list of supported mining software for automatic download is currently limited to the list you can find on the page below:
https://support.awesomeminer.com/support/solutions/articles/35000086210-remote-agent-for-linux-beta-You will also able to upload your own software, like you do on Windows.
GPU clocking is not yet supported, but will be in the future. Right now you need to manually define any commands to be running before starting a miner if you want to do clocking.
I'm not too experienced in running mining on Linux myself, but I had some other users running early tests of Remote Agent on Linux on HiveOS, where they simply disabled the HiveOS mining and installed Awesome Miner Remote Agent instead.
So my initial test with the linux agent was a semi-fail. I got AM to recognize the agent, but it refuses to mine.
The settings wasn't send correctly to the Remote Agent in this scenario. This will be corrected in the next update that soon will be made available.