Subj : Re: Win4lin To : Digital Man From : Finnigann Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 10:59 am -=> Digital Man wrote to Time Warrior <=- DM> Re: Win4lin DM> 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". DM> I disagree. I doubt you'll be successful getting Synchronet for Win32 DM> 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. DM> Like I said, good luck. You'll need it. Are you taking bets on how long it will be before he realizes what you meant? It's not that Linux is hard, more like Windows has been around (in public) for 25 years. What's puzzling is the notion that windows is easy. ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ³ "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, ³ in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." ³ - Carl Sagan ³ .... "Did you learn that from Data as well?" - Picard --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 þ Synchronet þ Bits-N-Bytes BBS One Hellofa BBS telnet://bnb.synchro.net .