Subj : RE: BBS platforms
To   : NuSkooler
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Sep 14 2022 09:59 pm

  Re: RE: BBS platforms
  By: NuSkooler to Nightfox on Wed Sep 14 2022 09:13 pm

 Nu> I find that for nearly any retro or "niche" type hobies around software
 Nu> Linux is easily king. Xibalba ran on CentOS 7 for many years up until a
 Nu> couple weeks ago when I used Leapp to do a seamless migration from CentOS
 Nu> 7 to AlmaLinux 8. Pretty impressive how well it worked. I have a mix of
 Nu> doors running under QEMU, DOSEMU and working on some EMU2 and DOSEMU2
 Nu> based setups. 

Some people might think a 32-bit Windows is a better tool for the job of running a BBS, since its NTVDM just works out of the box for DOS doors, but Linux is indeed great.

Nightfox
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