So I created a virtualbox of arch linux.  I just got the base and base-devel   
   installed.  Then downloaded the MBSE source for 1.0.6 and did the SETUP.sh and   
   then a configure and make then make install.  After remembering to set the   
   MBSE_ROOT it all worked well.  I then copied over all of my BBS files and did   
   some tests.  I wasn't getting any buffer overflow errors anywhere where I was   
   before.   
      
   So by the looks of things I'm going to be switching to arch linux.  It's not    
   my   
    favorite distro but it has the best of both the package management of   
   Ubuntu/Mint (just no good graphical one) and the customization like Gentoo   
   (just doesn't compile the program on the fly).  I maybe should have went with   
   Slackware.  It's been 10 years since I ran that one.   
      
   I'm hoping to have most everything up and running in a couple of days.  It's   
   just going to take a while to get everything moved over and setup (like DNS    
   and   
   DHCP for my internal network)  Plus I need to setup a nice X11 environment   
   again.   
      
   Stephen                 
                                                                                    
      
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