Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : Nightfox
From : ogg
Date : Tue Sep 13 2022 01:35 pm


On 13 Sep 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni> For sysops, I'm just curious what platforms & operating system you run
 Ni> your BBS in?
 Ni> 
 Ni> When I started my current BBS in 2007, I ran it in Windows for many years
 Ni> (sometimes on native hardware, and sometimes in a Windows VM).  About 4
 Ni> months ago, I decided to move my BBS setup to run in Linux (I've been
 Ni> running Linux as the host OS on my BBS PC since 2015 but had been
 Ni> running my BBS in a Windows VM on it).  I'm using Synchronet, which is
 Ni> cross-platform, so I basically just had to move my comfiguration over to
 Ni> the Linux host OS and then update my DOS door configurations to make
 Ni> sure they'd run with DOSEMU in Linux.  I did have a couple of
 Ni> Win32-native doors, which I lost, unfortunately (Tournament Trivia,
 Ni> Ashrella: Test of Time), but I was able to move at least one set of
 Ni> trivia questions to a DOS trivia door.

I'm running Mystic on Ubuntu.  Due to some python issues, I'm considering moving to another distro.  I'm curious as to what others are running on as well.

ogg

Sysop, Altair IV BBS
Lufkin, TX 
fsxnet: 21:2/147

.... If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

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 * Origin: Altair IV BBS (21:2/147)

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