sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.


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Re: windows 10 32bit
By: Matt Munson to All on Thu Jun 24 2021 09:15 pm

sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.

Well, if you are going for relics, that OS/2 is going to be the winner.
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sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.

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That may depend on what kind of BBS you want to run. I like linux because
it has native nfs. However, many distributions no longer maintain a 32-bit version of linux.

I see you are running WWIV. The WWIV developer(s) have started maintaining
an OS/2 version again.


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Hello Matt.

24 Jun 21 21:15, you wrote to All:

sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.

i love my os2 :)

Daniel

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Matt Munson wrote to All <=-

sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.

I'm running Win10/32, and it's updated regularly. As for relics, OS/2 is as relic-ey as they get!

I'm tempted to update the BBS box to 64 bit Windows 10, as Synchronet is a 32-bit app and will run on it. I could run my DOS apps in DOSBOX and be able to throw more memory at the BBS and Shoutcast.

In reality, the only part of the BBS that is dos-based now are my nodelist building tools and a couple of online games which no one's played in a
while.


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Mike Powell wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

That may depend on what kind of BBS you want to run. I like linux
because it has native nfs. However, many distributions no longer
maintain a 32-bit version of linux.

I know there's a couple of OSes that have 32-bit versions, still. Debian
will support 32-bit until 2025, at least.

You mentioned NFS - I'm inheriting a Linux farm that's running LDAP for
auth, and it's a pain in the ass. I'm wondering what was so bad about
NIS/NFS for networking, it seemed to just work out of the box, and in my relatively limited experience, rarely broke.


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BY: Kurt Weiske(1:218/700)

sadly its a relic now. Im debating if i should go os/2 or linux for bbsing.

I'm running Win10/32, and it's updated regularly. As for relics, OS/2 is
as
relic-ey as they get!

Im speaking about windows 11.


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I know there's a couple of OSes that have 32-bit versions, still. Debian
will support 32-bit until 2025, at least.

I think that devuan, a debian derivative, may also.

You mentioned NFS - I'm inheriting a Linux farm that's running LDAP for
auth, and it's a pain in the ass. I'm wondering what was so bad about
NIS/NFS for networking, it seemed to just work out of the box, and in my relatively limited experience, rarely broke.

I also wonder about that. Like maybe the started doing it that way to
support something else and maybe never changed it when they went all linux?
Like you say, once I learned how to use it, NFS just works.

Mike

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