Re: Using Linux to get Apples surfing?

[Alistair J Ross <mail@ataliross.co.uk>]

Hi,

My advice to you is to use a modern day Linux distribution such Fedora
Core (fedora.redhat.com) or debian (debian.org). You can download these
for free (you will need broadband).

The current Linux kernel is 2.6, which is the core part of the o/s, but
Linux comprises of lots of other software too, thus a 'distribution'.

I would ditch the BBS package that you have heard of, as it sounds like it
has been dropped a *very* long time ago, visit freshmeat.net (a popular
linux software downloads site, like download.com but for linux). Tap in
BBS software in the search or something similar, and download a bbs server
for linux which is up to date.

Configuration of the software is usually the trickiest part of a BBS, I
used to run Remote Access and WildCat! on the IBM many moons ago, that was
tricky initially to set up but easy once you knew how.

HTH.

Regards,

Alistair Ross



On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:16:20 +0000, Michael Black wrote:

> 
> "brad" (mrbrad@ll.net) writes:
>> ok...i've re-read the below...i don't program...i basically understand that
>> the reply below was in the lang of english..but that is about all  i'm sure
>> of
>> 
>> basically....i was hoping that a) a hd would appear with a linux version 1.2
>> kernal more or less that had a o/s that i could run a package called
>> worldgroup for unix on....
>> 
> The 1.2 Kernel is old, I'm running 2.4.22  If you really think your
> solution is to run an old version of Linux, then there are other issues such
> as security and it's all pretty old.  Any distribution with that old a kernel
> is going to be much limited compared to today's distributions.
> 
> I don't think the kernel is your problem.  What you seem to be saying is
> that the BBS package doesn't run, but I lost track at that point.  If it
> needs an old kernel, likely it's not because of the kernel, but because it
> uses old libraries that come with the distribution that comes with that
> kernel.  Of course, if you are merely running such an old distribution because
> you have it, that might mean that the BBS software is more recent, and the
> distribution is missing a more recent library.
> 
> If the distribution is missing a library, then one can add it in.  But the
> issue is that some of a distribution is like a house of cards, in that all
> the parts are related.  If you need a missing library, you need a missing
> library that works with the rest of the distribution.
> 
> Or, if you've got the source, compiling that under a more recent distribution
> may provide okay operation, unless again a missing library.
> 
>   Michael

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