I am starting to think similarly as I have gotten on in years. I have
tried most if not all of the (Then or Now) available BBS software.
Both the paid for types like Wildcat/WinServer and BBBS to the other
'Free' BBS packages that would run on my selected OS platforms of DOS, Windows, Linux, OS/2.
Currently my preferred BBS software is BBBS, Mystic, and Synchronet as
they are all multi-platform packages.
Both the paid for types like Wildcat/WinServer and BBBS to the other
'Free' BBS packages that would run on my selected OS platforms of DOS,
Windows, Linux, OS/2.
Currently my preferred BBS software is BBBS, Mystic, and Synchronet as
they are all multi-platform packages.
IF you need too, try mbse and yes you can control where it is installed via configure --prefix= command.
How ever that said as you have paid the big bucks to use bbbs I guess you will
stick to it :)
I have never tried bbbs as it is paid for software and as I am retired do not have funds to spend on such when there are more than enough FOC products.
The one issue is for bbbs or for that matter any s/w is, can you select exactly
where to install it ?
I have never tried bbbs as it is paid for software and as I am retired do not >> have funds to spend on such when there are more than enough FOC products.
It's not that expensive, and you only pay for the number of nodes you want to run... I think I mentioned this before as well, when I first started using BBBS, I just ran the free trial nodes until I determined it would do everything I needed... after that I registered 5 nodes IIRC, then eventually
bumped it up to 15. It is a great system IMO, including essentially everythin
you might need.
I am starting to think similarly as I have gotten on in years. I have tried
most if not all of the (Then or Now) available BBS software. Both the paid for
types like Wildcat/WinServer and BBBS to the other 'Free' BBS packages that would run on my selected OS platforms of DOS, Windows, Linux, OS/2.
The one issue is for bbbs or for that matter any s/w is, can you select
exactly
where to install it ?
By default, IIRC, it unzips to 'bbbs' in whatever directory you unzip it to. S
if you unzip it in /home/myhome, the directory it creates is
/home/myhome/bbbs/. I am sure that with some tweaking that can be changed onc
the files are unpacked.
Since I have a preference that BBBS runs out of the user directory as in /home/bbbs I installed BBBS to use and install to that directory and
created the user "bbbs" and told Linux to use the pre-existing bbbs home directory.
I have never tried bbbs as it is paid for software and as I am
retired do not have funds to spend on such when there are more than
enough FOC products.
Yeah, you know that the two node version of BBBS is available, right?
The only limitations to it that I know of are a 2 node max and a 30
minute hard time limit for users.
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