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   -=> Chad Adams wrote to Sean Dennis <=-   
      
    CA> To be honest, you should check out Linux Mint. If you are using it on a   
    CA> desktop, it has the look and feel of Windows, with a Linux core. It is   
    CA> based on Debian/Ubuntu and is extremely good.   
      
   I have used Linux Mint before.  However, I am no fan of systemd and that   
   killed any interest for me right there.   
      
    CA> I use Mint for development, and I use Slack15 for servers. Slackware is   
    CA> much more difficult to learn but well worth it.   
      
   Slackware is the most "UNIX-like" and the one Linux distro I like best.  It   
   was very easy for me to jump over to FreeBSD from using Slackware.  I've   
   dabbled in many Linux distros over the past 24 years but I keep coming back   
   to Slackware.   
      
    CA> Everyone is hung up on Windows to play doors and while that is true,   
    CA> its only a small part of the BBS experience. You can always use Linux,   
    CA> and then use Door game servers for your door games. Truth is with   
    CA> doors, you can do all this work to host them, and then have 1 player.   
    CA> Its just not worth it. Run whatever OS you want, whatever BBS software   
    CA> you want, and use a BBS Door Game server and still offer a better   
    CA> experience. I get the fun is setting it up, but it gets old..   
      
   I don't need to use "door game servers" as I can run DOS doors just fine   
   using DOSemu.  Doors are not my primary concern anyway as people mainly call   
   for messages and files.  I have one 84-year-old caller that's been calling   
   my board for 20 years.  I don't care that I get a bunch of callers as that's   
   not why I run a BBS.   
      
   The main reason I still run a board is for my enjoyment, not anyone else's   
   these days.  In the grand scheme of things, I have several other hobbies   
   that bring me joy also but I am just not ready to yet.  I have the framework   
   in place where if I decided to quit it all tomorrow, Micronet would   
   continue on just fine without me as would my BBS software.   
      
   I'm not at that point yet and I don't know if I ever will be.  My BBS runs   
   very nicely now; it's very stable and has not crashed once on its own.  It   
   works for me and I'm happy with it.   
      
   I could write a "door game server" using socat, a bash script, and DOSemu    
   (it's   
   surprisingly very easy to do) if that's what I wanted and be done with it.    
   But my happy memories of BBSing's halcyon days of calling local boards are   
   one of the reasons why I still choose to run a hardware-based BBS stillo   
   even in this "modern" age.   
      
   -- Sean   
      
      
      
      
   ... "To be happy, make other people happy." -- W. Clement Stone   
   --- MultiMail/Linux   
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