Subj : Re: Versions
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 05 2022 17:40:55

  Re: Re: Versions
  By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Wed Jan 05 2022 01:12 pm

 >   Re: Re: Versions
 >   By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Wed Jan 05 2022 12:35 pm
 >
 >  TM> Linux is a great alternative to Windows. I ran it before when I had a
 >  TM> desktop pc and loved it.
 >
 > I have a second PC running Linux (which I use as a Plex media server, among
 > other things).  I actually have my BBS running in a Windows virtual machine
 > on that PC.  So far I've kept my BBS in Windows, partly because if it's not
 > broken then don't fix it.  It would take some work to get it migraded to
 > Linux, though I imagine it probably wouldn't be too difficult.  I do have
 > one Win32 door set up on my BBS (Ambroshia: Test of Time), which has been
 > played before by some users on my BBS, but I'm not sure how much it would be
 > missed.

You can actually run *both*, like I do. So long as the Linux-sbbs instance and the Windows-sbbs instances have access to the same sbbs directory tree, they can live together harmoneously, serving a different set of nodes each (that the purpose of the FirstNode/LastNode values in your sbbs.ini file). I actually run 3 instances of sbbs: Win7-32 on bbs.synchronet, Win10-64 on vert.synchro.net and Debian-Linux-64 on cvs.synchro.net.

If you want to know more about how to do that, just ask. There may be a wiki page on it already or I if not, I should write one.
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