Subj : Re: Win4lin
To   : Finnigann
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 10:51 am

  Re: Re: Win4lin
  By: Finnigann to Time Warrior on Fri Sep 30 2005 05:17 am

 > -=> Time Warrior wrote to Finnigann <=-
 > 
 >  TW> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >  TW>   To: Finnigann
 >  TW>   Re: Re: Win4lin
 >  TW>   By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Thu Sep 29 2005 03:05 pm
 > 
 > 
 >  >  > If i'm in for a rough ride, then it's my rough ride to be in for, and 
 >  >  > 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 me
 > 
 >  TW> Bets are uneeded. I know what he is talking about. Why do you think I
 >  TW> want to try? As i've said, if it was easy, someone would have done it
 >  TW> already.
 > 
 >  TW> I suppose you only take on tasks that don't pose any challenges?
 >  TW> <shrug>
 > 
 > His point and mine is that two difficult tasks at the same time could be
 > avoided. Thus possible enableing success.
 > 
 > Learning Linux is going to be a steep learning curve. Why not learn SBBS fir
 > (ala sbbs.exe)  and then Linux when you have finished that (more or less)
 > 
 > Obviously you control what goes on in your house. And you will heed what adv
 > as you will.
 > 

To setup SBBS on Linux only requires a basic knowledge of Linux once the OS 
is installed.  Instead of 'dir' use 'ls', instead of 'type' use 'cat', and 
so forth.  Also the tools like grep, awk, tail, etc make life SO much easier 
:)  Once SBBS is up and running though, it's about identical to the WIndows 
install from what I've seen.  Your logs and stats are textfiles instead of 
fancy graphics, but things work pretty much the same way.

I'd say the hardest part in using Linux for someone who's not familiar with 
it is the structure and methods Linux does things.  Most Windows folks who 
try Linux get thrown off by the directory structure and the way Linux mounts 
drives.  There are no drive letters... everything is a file and directory, 
even devices like your modem, network card, sound card, etc.  From using 
this for so long I can definitely see the advantages of this method, but 
it's quite different from Windows' methodology.

For anyone wanting to learn Linux, I'd suggest downloading Knoppix or 
another CD-bootable distro.  Installing Linux isn't too difficult, specially 
if you just want a command line environment for SBBS. Also there's TONS of 
rsources from in here to IRC to newsgroups and more.


FWIW,

Sam

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