Subj : Re: Current ZeroTier'd nodes
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : Black Panther
Date : Tue Jul 23 2019 13:02:38

On 23 Jul 2019, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
 
 Me> What made you choose straight Debian over Ubuntu? What was the thought
 Me> process behind it? 

Well, the only distro that I've used on a production system had been Ubuntu.
I wanted something stable, without a lot of the bloat. I also felt it was
good to stick with a debian based system, as that's what I know.

 Me> I'm just curious as I have been thinking about a distro-hop for my
 Me> Linux laptop, but I was toying with moving away from a Debian
 Me> derivative and potentially thinking about heading more towards Arch or
 Me> Manjaro or something of that ilk. Not decided yet, but it's just an
 Me> idea at this moment.

I've been looking at many distros in the last few months. Manjaro is one of
ones that I really like. I do have it running in a VM, but decided to not run
it as the primary os, as there are still a lot of things I don't know about
it. For example, I know on a debian based system, I can type 'sudo apt update
&& sudo apt install python-dateutil python-tz'. When it comes to pacman, I'm
not familiar with all of the commands yet

There were actually a lot of differences just between Ubuntu and Debian. The
location of the config files, samba, etc. 

 Me> Good work on getting everything working under Debian for the
 Me> BBS computer and hope you get Python to play nice soon, I have my BBS
 Me> running in an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS container and was messing about recently
 Me> with FreeBSD and OpenBSD with Mystic, but I couldn't get Python to work
 Me> properly yet so have hit a small stumbling block... running Linux
 Me> binaries in BSD isn't too difficult, and I managed to get the majority
 Me> of it working lol, I just need Python, then I will test to see what
 Me> benefits or downfalls are to running on BSD over Linux etc.

I haven't tried any of the BSDs yet. I figure, I'm still a newbie at Linux,
I'd better wait for a bit... :)

 Me> I was also toying with the idea of creating another BBS using something
 Me> entirely different for the BBS server software, instead of Mystic,
 Me> perhaps give Enigma another go or maybe find something else. I did see

For awhile, I was running Mystic, Synchronet, ENiGMA, and Magicka. I was
trying to get WWIV to work, but was running into issues. I wanted to see how
the setup was for each of them, so that I could speak objectively about them.

I'm still running 2 copies of Mystic, and a copy of Synchronet. (It's acting
as a FTN<>QWK gateway for 3 different networks.


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