Subj : Win4lin
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 12:41 am

  Re: Win4lin
  By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Thu Sep 29 2005 01:06 am

 >  > For what its worth, I think it's a *really* bad idea. If you want to beco
 >  > familiar with how Synchronet for Linux looks/feels/works, just run sbbs.e
 >  > instead of sbbsctrl.exe.
 > 
 >  > Your challenge will be configuring/using Linux, not Synchronet. Don't mak
 >  > things even tougher on yourself by trying to run a kludged BBS when it is
 >  > necessary.
 > 
 > I (and alot of other people) who still don't know much about Linux would lik
 > to be able to learn it without still needing a winblowz machine to run
 > Synchronet. For people not flient in linux, trying to use synchronet linux
 > while still learning linux itself will be tougher on us than "trying to run 
 > kludged BBS".

I disagree. I doubt you'll be successful getting Synchronet for Win32 to run
under Linux *at all*, but good luck to ya, I guess. 
 
 > I respect your input and superior knowledge and skills but please, people
 > need to learn how they need to learn, not everyone learns the same way (i
 > went on a rant about this the other day). Please just agree to disagree.
 > 
 > If i'm in for a rough ride, then it's my rough ride to be in for, and i'll
 > learn alot from the journey.

Like I said, good luck. You'll need it.

                                                  digital man

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