I know that in the past a question like this would start a holy war but I'm going to ask it anyways.
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses), what is
your day to day go to OS.
Right now, it's Ubuntu. That will be changing in the near future, as I don't like the direction Canonical is heading recently. I'm probably looking at running Debian, as it's close to what I'm familiar with.
You should take a look at Linux Mint. It's 100% Debain based but offers more bells and whistles including news apt packages compared to Debian core.
On 28 Jun 2019, Netsurge said the following...
Right now, it's Ubuntu. That will be changing in the near future, as I don't like the direction Canonical is heading recently. I'm probably looking at running Debian, as it's close to what I'm familiar with.
Netsurge wrote to All <=-
I know that in the past a question like this would start a holy
war but I'm going to ask it anyways.
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot
of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses),
what is your day to day go to OS.
I personally have an iMac at home and a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro
from work that I live in.
They seem to have changed their plans:
Ubuntu Decides to Keep Supporting Selected 32-bit Libs After Developer Outrage
I know that in the past a question like this would start a holy war but I'm going to ask it anyways.
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses), what is
your day to day go to OS.
I personally have an iMac at home and a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro from work that I live in.
Ubuntu Decides to Keep Supporting Selected 32-bit Libs After Developer Outrage
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-19-10-drops-32-bit-support/
I've looked at mint in the past, and it looked and felt good. My only concern, is it's based on Debian and Ubuntu, according to their website. With Ubuntu insisting on this 'snap' bullsh... will mint follow suit?
They seem to have changed their plans:
Ubuntu Decides to Keep Supporting Selected 32-bit Libs After Developer Outrage
My daily driver is Slackware Linux, mostly on a Lenovo laptop.
The BBS runs on a dedicated box also running Slack. I have a few
test boxes around that I play around with other distros, mostly Debian-ish. I do have to use a Win10 laptop for work tasks.
I've even noticed 3rd party developers who are only going to release via snap. (notepadqq) I guess that means I need to change applications...
Windows 10 :)
I grew up on DOS so for me it was a natural progression.
Windows 10 :)
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses), what is
your day to day go to OS.
I've looked at mint in the past, and it looked and felt good. My only concern, is it's based on Debian and Ubuntu, according to their website. With Ubuntu insisting on this 'snap' bullsh... will mint follow suit?
I kind of figured there would be a backlash and possible reverse
decision.
I used slack for a while until I moved to gentoo. Spent a long time with that until I finally settled on Debian about 10 years ago.
Netsurge wrote to Dan Clough <=-
My daily driver is Slackware Linux, mostly on a Lenovo laptop.
The BBS runs on a dedicated box also running Slack. I have a few
test boxes around that I play around with other distros, mostly Debian-ish. I do have to use a Win10 laptop for work tasks.
Slackware was the first every linux distro I used. I remember
having to install it using something like 10 floppies.
I used slack for a while until I moved to gentoo. Spent a long
time with that until I finally settled on Debian about 10 years
ago.
I kind of figured there would be a backlash and possible reverse decision.
It's a bit too little, too late. Canonical is only keeping it in 19.10
and 20.04. Before you hit me with the "But the next LTS will be
supported until 2024" or whenever it is, keep in mind that their intent
to deprecate this suggests it won't be supported /well/ which is a
crucial distinction IMO.
I did the same! I actually still use Gentoo, on a powerpc g4 mac mini, because nothing else these days has any semblance of a modern/currently supported OS running on 32 bit PPC :P
I know that in the past a question like this would start a holy war but I'm going to ask it anyways.
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses), what is
your day to day go to OS.
I administer Linux servers as part of my job and I want to be a fan, but Linux just will not suit my needs without a TON of work I just don't
have the time to invest anymore. I got "spoiled" in some ways, maybe a
bit lazy.
When I tried a Mac, and everything just worked, I never looked back. I'm still using my first Macbook Air - it must be 7-8yrs old, and my iMac is 6+ years old, and I want to upgrade to the latest, but just cant justify it (there is nothing wrong with them).
While I am a linux fan - as a desktop I'm not a fan, and I got sick of trying to get things to work - or sick of fixing/reformaing files that came from a Microsoft user (word, powerpoint, etc). I also got sick of
it not hibernating, when you close the laptop lid. There were sometimes where it was 3-4 times quicker to boot the machine, than it was to
resume from suspending.
I also prefer a challenge. Pointing and clicking is not my thing. I am a cisco ccie, so I live in a command line environment daily.
Since playing around more in Linux terminals and even using all keyboard for BBS navigation -- I dread every time I have to read emails on my
work laptop via Outlook and click around all day reading emails.
I administer Linux servers as part of my job and I want to be a fan, bu Linux just will not suit my needs without a TON of work I just don't have the time to invest anymore. I got "spoiled" in some ways, maybe a bit lazy.
This is where we differ. Windows Server environment has caused me to shave years off of my life. I much prefer a Linux solution that can be paired down to whatever service(s) I may need, be it RADIUS or DHCP.
My only complaint, if I really wanted to whine like a child, is that sometimes its frustrating dealing with Sysops who "tinker" with their Linux system so much that the basics start to fail... I have a Fido RC
who *LOVES* to tinker with Linux and Mystic, so mail delivery and
segments are not really reliable.
Anyhow I was real sad - for a moment anyhow - to have to say goodbye to OS/2. I was such a huge fan of OS/2 from '93 all the way to the summer
of 2001. I was THAT stedfastly an OS/2 user that I ended up doing all kinds of trickery and hacks and whatnot to keep that system running as long as I did.
Desqview/386 was also amazing. Quarterdeck really had a good product there.
I know that in the past a question like this would start a holy war but I'm going to ask it anyways.
Aside form the OS that your BBS might be running on (I know a lot of people are using Pi's or a hosting slice to run their bbses), what is your day to day go to OS.
I personally have an iMac at home and a Mac Pro and MacBook Pro from work that I live in.
Heh, I got my soon-to-be-ex-wife, while were not seperating that is, an iMac for her, because I told her I wouldn't support Windows, and if she wanted to run it, she would basically be on her own. She'd ran Linux for
a while though, until she up and decided she has to have an iPhone,
which doesn't have iTunes. :)
Heh, I got my soon-to-be-ex-wife, while were not seperating that is,
an iMac for her, because I told her I wouldn't support Windows, and
if she wanted to run it, she would basically be on her own. She'd
ran Linux for a while though, until she up and decided she has to
have an iPhone, which doesn't have iTunes. :)
Now that Apple has finally decided to kill iTunes, Linux might be a good choice to go back to, lol.
Wait? What?
So I have very much integrated myself into the Apple ecosystem with the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomeKit home automation (with
custom devices I've been making for automating my house, which maybe
some day I will make my BBS able to blink the light in my office when someone "pages the sysop"). :)
Wait? What?
They killed the desktop app only and are replacing it with a much lighter Apple Music app.
So I have very much integrated myself into the Apple ecosystem with
the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomeKit home automation
(with custom devices I've been making for automating my house, which
maybe some day I will make my BBS able to blink the light in my
office when someone "pages the sysop"). :)
Have you heard of HomeBridge? It's a node.js app that allows you to add close to anything you want to HomeKit.
I too have a lot of stuff being controlled via HomeKit. HomeBridge allows me to use cheap Sonoff relays and other smart devices that aren't homekit certified such as Lightify lightbulbs.
I even created my own garage door opener with an arduino, a relay and a reed switch which is used to check if the door is open or closed.
I also have it tied to Plex to set the room lighting based on what we are watching.
| Sysop: | altere |
|---|---|
| Location: | Houston, TX |
| Users: | 68 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 21:08:11 |
| Calls: | 890 |
| Files: | 7,879 |
| Messages: | 293,889 |