Subj : Who's using a Raspberry Pi for their BBS?
To   : All
From : Morgul
Date : Tue Apr 27 2021 17:50:48

I'm curious as to who is running their BBS on a Pi,what software you're using, 
and what were some of the hurdles you had to work out.

So, I ran a WWIV BBS from 1992-2002 on a DOS PC.  After shutting it down dur 
to lack of callers, I drifted away.  I kept in touch with people who were 
still running WWIV and kind of kept abreast of what all was happening.

In early 2020, I got interested in playing with the Raspberry Pi, and my first 
project was a NAS media server with RAID hard drives.  I fell in love with the 
Pi, and was REALLY enjoying being back in a command line environment again.

Then I got looking at BBSing again, talked with the current developer of WWIV, 
and decided to give it a shot.  And here I am, back online after a 20 year 
hiatus.

The BBS is running WWIV 5.7.1 on a Raspberry Pi 4b 4GB ram with a 128GB USB 
drive.  The case is an old US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard modem case.  
I still have to wire up a board with the LEDs and a connector to hook in to 
the Pi, and I've already written a python script that will emulate the modem 
lights for Waiting For Call, Incoming Call, and Caller Online.  If I ever get 
off my butt to finish it, it'll be awesome.

Biggest hurdle I had to work with was learning how to compile the binaries, 
and how to regularly update them.  Because of the ARM technology, I couldn't 
just use precompiled binaries.  So far it's working well.

                        ÄÄÄÄÄÍÍÍÍͯ Morgul! ®ÍÍÍÍÍÄÄÄÄÄ


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 * Origin: ** The Trading Post [SOUTH] - Columbia, SC ** (314:314/275)

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