Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Jun 30 2024 17:42:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to Accession on Sun Jun 30 2024 12:55 pm

 Ga> I think Gnome only comes in the Bloatware size any more.  There may be
 Ga> some variations though, as I recall in Mint Linux (I think) that you can
 Ga> choose between "Cinnamon" and "Mate" and the Cinnamon was almost tolerable
 Ga> for me.  But it's been a while.

 Ni> I like Linux Mint, and yes, there are editions with Cinnamon and Mate.
 Ni> I tend to like Cinnamon, but I also like Xfce.  And I know a GUI isn't
 Ni> really necessary on a computer running services, but I have the Mint
 Ni> Xfce edition on my PC running my BBS (and I also run Plex Media Server
 Ni> on that PC). With the GUI environment, I often like to have
 Ni> Synchronet's umonitor running (to show my BBS node status etc.) and
 Ni> also have a terminal window running to show the Synchronet log in
 Ni> real-time, etc..

Sounds very similar to what I'm doing.  Slackware with XFCE, and 
multiple xfce-terminal windows open.  One where I started the BBS and 
therefor has the log and "controls" (keypresses) available at the bottom 
(like 'Q' to exit the BBS).  Then I have a window tailing sbbs.log 
(using the 'lnav' utility which rocks); another window tailing 
sbbsecho.log with lnav, and another tailing with a grep for any 'tickit' 
activity.  Then one more open terminal for general looking around at 
stuff on the computer.  Instead of umonitor I like to have gtkmonitor 
open, as it looks nicer.  While I can do most anything I need to do at a 
CLI interface, it is sometimes nice to use a GUI file manager or even 
Firefox to check the Wiki or something.  All seems to work well for me.

The cool thing about all this discussion lately is that it doesn't much 
matter which *distro* you want to use, in the end, the operation on 
Linux is nearly identical other than cosmetics.  :-)



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