Subj : WWIV/X 4.24 for LINUX/UNIX
To   : ALL
From : MODEL500
Date : Fri Jan 05 2001 09:06 am

As some of you may know, there has been an undercover porting operation of 
WWIV 4.24 to UNIX. A Beta has recently been released as 0.8.0 (still some bugs 
to work out with the bbsd daemon), and can be found at this URL:

http://kobran.yi.org/wwivx

The BBS can be installed as a replacement shell, which means you have to go 
through UNIX log-in to get to the BBS, or it can be installed as a replacement 
login for telnetd (or equivalent daemon), meaning that UNIX login is 
completely bypassed.

As far as performance is concerned, I have noticed considerable improvement 
over the DOS/Windows environments, CPU usage is typically 20-35% less, and 
scales better to multiple internet users. Myself, I am using WWIV on my 
personal development WORKSTATION (which is running FOUR X displays for me and 
three of my colleagues who use the machine remotely), in addition to regularly 
running massive C compiles (I am a web app developer), and miscellaneous 
workstation stuff. In short, UNIX is just chugging right along....

for those who want to know, I am running Linux/Mandrake 7.2 with almost all my 
services turned off....

my machine has 128mb of ram, and 12gb of hard drive space, running on ReiserFS 
file-system. and according to my 'top' display has been running non-stop for 
two months, 6 days, 11:15 ... and my load avg is right at 2.25 right now with 
all three colleagues using my box, and wwiv running....

oh, doors are easy to set up too :-)  any standard unix console app can run 
unmodified (I've tried everything from nethack, to emacs, to vi, to my zork 
interpreter.. all work beautifully)


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