Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: WWIVnet etc..
From:    Frank Reid #1 @2
To:      Jahmas #29 @707
Date:    Sat Oct 17, 2026 19:09

J> Well initially I was thinking a refurb with Windoze 10 32bit and a solid
J> state drive for reliability but, now you have me thinking... about the
J> OS. Link I said, I've poking around with Linux. Why did you chose Ubuntu
J> specifically?

I'd been running WWIV 5.8/9 on Ubuntu 22.04, as that was always stable. (I run
my mail server called Mail-in-a-Box on that baseline, too.) When I started to
focus effort on it recently, I figured it made sense to move to Ubuntu 26.04.X
for the most current OS, and it's proven extremely reliable. That said, I've
run Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD routinely during my career, so I'm very
comfortable with the CLI.

I still run a bunch of stuff here. Despite the retirement, I've still got a few
static addresses for various functions, and I have an active FreeBSD host with
my family photo webserver (ourcorner.org), and Ubuntu 22.04 host with DNS for
the ~20 or so domains I still host, an Ubuntu 24.04 host for my virtual machine
hosting (QEMU/KVM managed mainly through Cockpit and, occasionally, virsh at
the command line), a Fedora 44 host as a backup to the beefier primary host,
etc. Heck, I sometimes forget what's actually still alive and running.

I asked about the hardware as I thought you were still in MD. I'm in Central
Virginia now for retirement in an area called Locust Grove. It's just west of
the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County. It's a quiet 55+ community where
we had a place built for retirement. Anyway, I have a bunch of serviceable
machines (and cabinets of parts) that will run Windows 10 32/64-bit or any
flavor of Unix. Most of the hardware won't support the TPM 2.0 and other
requirements for Windows 11, although I've managed to get it on there with
Rufus USB sticks and such.

Anyway, if you're ever in range, I'd be more than happy to provide you with a
machine to bring up for the BBS... gratis, of course!

Frank
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