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    From John Hiemenz@1:154/40 to Matt Munson on Sat Jun 26 09:36:34 2021
    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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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MATT MUNSON on Sat Jun 26 10:37:00 2021
    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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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Matt Munson on Sat Jun 26 06:42:00 2021
    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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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Mike Powell on Sun Jun 27 08:23:00 2021
    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.


    ... Change specifics to ambiguities
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to KURT WEISKE on Mon Jun 28 15:43:00 2021
    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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