Subj : Re: Windows 10 LTSC?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 13:05:10

  Re: Re: Windows 10 LTSC?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Accession on Mon Apr 28 2025 05:20 pm

 >> You've mentioned making the switch to Linux. What's holding you back from
 >> that?

 PF> Nothing holding me back, really - I just like Windows for running the BBS.
 PF> old habits, I guess.

 PF> I have a VM running the BBS in Ubuntu Server 24.04 I set up a couple of
 PF> weeks ago. I was able to move over most of my customizations, no problem,
 PF> and solved the path isssue with a couple of search and replace commands.
 PF> Thank you, text configuration files!

Do you mean you're thinking of moving your BBS back to Windows?

I ran my Synchronet BBS in Windows from 2007 to 2022. I decided to go ahead and move my BBS to Linux at that time, and I'm still happy with the setup.  The main reason I did that though is because I'd decided to use Linux as the host OS for a couple other servers (my Plex media server being one of them) and thought it would be easier if I had everything running in Linux so I wouldn't have to run a Windows VM for my BBS anymore.

When I first set up my Synchronet BBS, I felt like Windows was a natural choice because of historical reasons..  I ran my original BBS in the 90s in MS-DOS, and later ended up running it on a Windows 98 machine (still using the DOS software I was using).  I think running a BBS in Linux is okay though, and actually pretty cool that I can run my BBS as a service, similar to Apache or anything else that runs as a service.

On another note, I sometimes think about how I've been running my current BBS a lot longer than I ran my original BBS.  I ran my original BBS for 6 years, from 1994 to 2000; I've been running my current BBS for 18 years now.  I feel like that's quite a long time to run a BBS..  In their heyday, if someone had started running a BBS in 1980, 18 years would put it to 1998, when BBSes were already disappearing rapidly.

Nightfox
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