Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : Atreyu
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jun 25 2022 09:25:00

-=> Atreyu wrote to Arelor <=-

 At> There seems to be an unwritten rule everywhere in BBS'ing that one must
 At> love Linux and hate MS. No exceptions. Its very amusing to me how much
 At> I'm told "Windows sucks" when it powers a very large mail Hub here with
 At> over a hundred downlinks.. 24/7, 365, 99% uptime... no tinkering or
 At> babysitting needed. Ever.

I ran a DOS BBS for years, then went mail-only while I concentrated on a 
consulting business.

What inspired me to get back into it was running into Synchronet, and 
realizing I could run a BBS, web server, FTP server, mail, news, and IRC -- 
all on a crappy little tossed-aside Windows desktop PC.

I've made a couple of attempts to move my BBS to linux, but end up running 
on a small cast-off box, or as of yesterday, a small Windows guest VM.

 At> MS is a sleezeball company but Linux fanatics, to me, are far more
 At> fascist and intolerant, far more arrogant, far more likely to shove
 At> their OS down my throat at every opportunity. Especially when I
 At> disagree about "Desktop Linux".

We have a cohort of BSD users at work, they seem pretty content to just 
quietly use what works for them. I may need to join them someday - my first 
experience running public servers was BSD/OS and FreeBSD.






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