Subj : bbS Servers in Docker
To   : Deon & Others
From : paulie420
Date : Wed May 24 2023 19:15:40

Hey Deon, mL and others!!! I've been playing around with Docker lately.

It seems like a decent platform to run [several] bbSes on one server... both 
the simple ones [bbsio/synchronet] and even DOS BBS softwares w/ the use of 
DOSEMU. [jgoerzen/bbs-renegade and others by him]

I'm able to pull bbs-renegade, run it and connect to the port using a terminal 
software - I can build it locally to keep it persistent, of course.

Some others [jeffmealiffe/mysticbbs-docker, gryffyn/mysticbbs-docker] show how 
to build locally, with the /mystic directory linked to the running Docker 
container for easy editing of files you might need...

Deon - is yer ANSiTex in Docker by chance? 

I was thinking it would be awesome to have a 'bbs' that was simply a WFC screen 



















































































that allowed the connected user to login to as many historical [stock] bbS 
softwares as I can get setup... thinking that Docker might be a decent way to 
do this. With help from the above works, and others, I can learn some better 
practices at setting up both native and DOS softwares. 

Is there any interest in this - and/or, can I ask ?s here along the way if I 
start to get a hang of things? It seems a lot of folks get something basic 
running, but don't go the full distance. I'd like to get persistent installs of 



















































































different softwares - which in the grand scheme doesn't seem all THAT hard - 
just work getting there.



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