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   Jeff Smith to Ian Mclaughlin   
   BBBS and New Hardware?   
   16 May 15 14:34:30   
   
   >> Hello All,   
   >> I was wondering if anyone has any info on how BBBS works with new(er) PC   
   >> hardware. I am in the process of building a new PC with todays available   
   >>hardware. I will be installing 64 bit Ubuntu on the PC. Currently the PC will   
   >>have a SSD boot drive and 2-4 TB's of SATA storage, an 8 or 10 core processor   
   >>and a minimum of 16G's of Ram. I don't plan on playing any games or the like    
   >> the video will be a modest PCIe card with 2G onboard. I realize that   
   >>BBBS depends alot on the OS for hardware compatibility. But to the degree tha   
   >> BBBS interacts with the PC hardware itself I was curious if there are any   
   >>issues or limitations. I had noticed some minor issues with USB drivers and G   
   >> issues with previous installs of Ubuntu. Anyone have any thoughts?   
   >> Jeff   
      
   > I'm running BBBS on 64-bit CentOS 6 with no problems at all.  Your specs are   
   >complete overkill for a BBBS machine, so if you're wanting to just run the BBS   
   > in the background, you'll never even notice it running.   
   > Ian   
      
   I currently have 64 bit BBBS running on 2.6G P4 with with 8G of ram and 2 TB's   
   of drive space using Ubuntu 14.10.   
      
   Yeah, I know.  I keep telling myself "Just one more PC". I have Linux on   
   three PC's at the moment and working on a 4th. Plus a couple Win64 machines.   
      
   I was contemplating setting up a mail (Email) server on a Linux machine but I   
   may just stay with the one I have now on the Windows machine. Running Linux I   
   would have to piece together Postfix for SMTP, Dovecat for POP3 and IMAP, and   
   Apache and SquirrelMail if I wanted webmail access. Plus any antivirus   
   protection I may require. There are single Win32 apps that will do all the   
   services.   
      
   Jeff   
      
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