when was this? wasn't linux magazine done in the 2000s? or is linux magazine back?
Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
By: Gamgee to Arelor on Sun Jun 30 2024 07:10 pm
I think the elegant solution is to define a "maintenance" runlevel for when you want to boot up without starting all your user facing services, rather than having your main runlevel start only the basics and then force you to start your services manually.
Hahaha! Yes, I guess that would be possible. But worth the effort?
Slackware's init system is so hackable that I think achieving
this is actually easy. If you have to manually launch your
services more than 6 times in the lifetime of your OS instance
then I'd think implementing this is actually worth the 7 minutes
it takes. Plus it will be fun for you to learn how inittab and
company work if you don't know already.
And fun is the main reason why people keeps hobby home labs,
isn't it?
apt under Debian and Devuan spits out no such messages. They "just work"
like they are supposed to.
That's a good thing. I take it you're using Devuan now? That may be another on
I might have to take a look at. I'm not really in the market for a GUI distro,
but it cures boredom at times. :)
Maybe I'm lucky then, but I haven't had a single issue with systemd in all the >years I've used it. Definitely never had a Linux distro randomly reboot on me, >which almost sounds more like hardware failure than anything else.
terminal for general looking around at stuff on the computer. Instead of umonitor I like to have gtkmonitor open, as it looks nicer. While I can
The cool thing about all this discussion lately is that it doesn't much matter which *distro* you want to use, in the end, the operation on Linux is nearly identical other than cosmetics. :-)
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sun Jun 30 2024 05:42 pm
terminal for general looking around at stuff on the computer. Instead of umonitor I like to have gtkmonitor open, as it looks nicer. While I can
I was using gtkmonitor for a while, but there was a point where I
updated the code and gtkmonitor failed to build. I asked Digital Man about it, and at the time I think he said gtkmonitor wasn't being
updated very often, so I started using umonitor instead.
The cool thing about all this discussion lately is that it doesn't much matter which *distro* you want to use, in the end, the operation on Linux is nearly identical other than cosmetics. :-)
Yep :)
I was using gtkmonitor for a while, but there was a point where I updated the code and gtkmonitor failed to build. I asked Digital Man about it, and at the time I think he said gtkmonitor wasn't being updated very often, so I started using umonitor instead.
Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
By: Gamgee to fusion on Fri Jun 07 2024 01:34 pm
I never got aboard the OS/2 train. Straight from DOS to Win, and eventually Linux.
I went from DOS to Windows too, but in 1996 I experimented a bit with OS/2 because I was curious about it. I could definitely see how it would have been nice to run a BBS in OS/2 (even a DOS BBS). I had also played a bit with Ray Gwinn's SIO drivers, which allowed telnet access to a virtual serial port.. I tried setting up a copy of RemoteAccess (BBS software for DOS) with those SIO drivers and was impressed that I could successfully telnet into it. I also looked into an OS/2-native BBS package that I thought looked interesting (AdeptXBBS) but never actually used it to run a BBS.
By that time though, Windows was the main OS I was using, and OS/2 was on its way out, with not much software being made for it.
Nightfox
On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 23:52:10 -0700, you wrote:I ran CentOS for a long time in a datacenter environment for headless servers. It was really just an alternative to RHEL at the time and I never regretted it from a security and ease-of-use standpoint. It's been a few years now since I've used it, but I'll have to check out 9.
I may give CentOS a try one of these days as I've always heard great
things about it, but my servers will most likely always run Arch.
Considering CentOS is being end-of-lifed soon (as of June 30), there probably isn't much point in trying it now.
CentOS 8's EOL is soon. CentOS 9 has just begun. :)
Regards,
Nick
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
Your post really resonated with me. I really had big hopes for OS/2. While serving in the Navy we used Windows NT Server and Workstation primarily but OS/2 Warp made it's way into our internal network for managing building security (badging, door sensors, alarms). I wanted to
run BBS's on OS/2 but ended up using Windows instead. It's so nice now to have so many options all the way from CP/M and DOS all the way to Raspian, Debian, and some really cool distros. I've even got Mint installed on a spare laptop which is pretty decent and gives Ubuntu a run for it's money from a desktop perspective.
I never got aboard the OS/2 train. Straight from DOS to Win, and
eventually Linux.
I was all-in for quite some time. Worked with OS/2 1.2 and 1.3 in a IBM AS/400 and Lan Manager environment, then 2.0, then Warp 3 working with Netware - and then Windows NT 3.51 came out and it just *worked*.
Ran the BBS under OS/2 Warp 3 for a couple of years, loved that I could have a mailer, busy BBS and all the utilities running in an OS/2 console in the background of my desktop and not even notice it was there.
CentOS 8's EOL is soon. CentOS 9years now since I've used it, but I'
just begun. :)
have to check out 9.
Previous CentOS were all just copies
of RHEL with all the "RedHat" images
taken out. If I remember correctly, the
new CentOS releases will be based on
Fedora instead. Does that jive, or am I
misremembering?
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